Let’s Ditch Dixie  – The case for Northern secession:

‘You hear echoes of Southern nationalism
whenever Mississippi invokes “states’ rights” to justify flying
the Confederate flag over their capitols; or when the GOP’s
honorary Dixie chick Gale Norton mourns the defeat of the
South saying that “we lost too much”; or when John Ashcroft
praises Southern Partisan magazine for helping “set the
record straight” on the War Between the States.

This re-emergence of Confederate pride is merely the
symptom of a much deeper problem: The North and South
can no longer claim to be one nation. If you want proof, just
look at the electoral map from the last presidential election.

(T)he cultural
gap that pits NASCAR fans against PBS viewers continues to
widen. Ted Turner all but confirmed the balkanization of
America when he established a cable network exclusively for
the citizens of Dixie, serving up finger-lickin’ TV fare that
includes Andy Griffith reruns, the best of World
Championship Wrestling, CNN South, and slapstick movies
such as Dumb and Dumber (which, according to the president
of “Turner South,” gets unusually high ratings regionally).

The United States doesn’t have to refight the Civil War to set
matters right. Rather, North and South should simply follow
the example of the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Shake
hands, says it’s been real, and go their separate ways. And if
the South isn’t inclined to leave anytime soon, then we should
show them the door by seceding unilaterally. Because for all
the hue and cry of the South being a conquered people, it is
the North that increasingly finds itself under the dominion of
the Confederacy. ‘ Slate