According to Ryan McMaken’ s new book, Breaking Away, since 1945 the number of independent countries in the world has almost tripled. #Secession is trending!
We, the people of the empire formerly known as the “United States of America” would be well-served to heed the lesson. After all, these confederated states were formed by secession from an overbearing Great Britain.
I submit that it is now high time that the revolutionary principles of our founders be applied to the federal oligarchy under whose yoke we are currently repressed.
#CalExit, for example, seems like both an excellent idea for those who desire to live there, and for those of us residing elsewhere as well.
I would further suggest that North Carolina would benefit from secession from the US, in ways both cultural and economic. Furthermore, NC currently consists of at least three independent regions (western, central, and eastern), each of which would benefit from disassociation from the others.
The idea of the eastern part of our state being disconnected from the urban central region excites me — the trade and governance aspects seem to almost demand it. And, as an historical “Appalachian-American”, I suspect the mountain folk might find a similar separation advantageous as well.
Such functional separations might lead to consolidations with areas more in common also, e.g., eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, or eastern NC and eastern SC perhaps.
There seems less and less reason to maintain our national status quo, and stronger and stronger arguments for a ‘national’ reorganization. At least, I think the topic deserves some serious discussion at several structural levels.