Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 16:18:34 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: America the Beautiful Message-ID: <2281.828577114@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Apr 1996 10:59:11 CST." <199604031659.KAA28168@compound>
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> The more interesting question to me personally is how long *Minnesota* > will remain a part of the Union. (Not long I hope. Better a dead I wonder if you're really serious here.. It's kind of amusing, but I've had a lot of my european friends ask me what America is going to do in the next 50 years now that we're at end-of-empire and sort of generally sick of playing self-appointed policeman to the world (Vietnam was sort of the beginning of the end in many, many ways). I say that we'll still be here, just fragmented into a bunch of nation-states. New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada will probably be one independant territory, I expect the northies to go their own way (Montana/North Dakota, etc) and California, of course, will finally acknowledge the obvious and become its own country. No idea whether or not the transition will be peaceful thought. Depends on how attached the Federalists are to the idea of a complete Union. My feeling is that the writing on the wall will be there for many years before the first official break-away, and by then everyone will have had time to get used to it. That is, unless you silly Minnesotans jump the gun or something.. :-) Jordan
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