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Civil War pre-enactors

Civil War pre-enactors

Like it or not, the "red" and "blue" states need each other.

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Damian Penny
Sep 08, 2022
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The other day, former celebrity Kathy Griffin took to posting vaguely worded threats of civil war on her Twitter feed:

Michael Malice, with whom I’m vaguely familiar and frankly wish I wasn’t, responded by demanding a “peaceful divorce” in which Republican- and Democrat-voting states go their own way. (They each split time with Georgia on a week-on, week-off basis, I presume.)

I in turn responded that a “national divorce” is frankly unworkable, considering how the voting population is distributed:

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