Posted by Andy
I’m of two minds about secession of the blue states, but on balance (pace Nick’s buddy Lincoln) I’m inclined to let the erring sisters go in peace. We might want to start a naming contest here on the Just Opinions blog. Off the top of my head, I suggest “Leftcoastia” on the west, presided over of course by General Secretary Streisand, and in the northeast “Kerristan,” with twin capitals, like Bolivia, in Boston and New York. Along the Great Lakes a string of Free Cities–Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland et al loosely confederated in a Hanseatic-style Democratic League. Some population exchanges would of course be necessary, but they could be supervised by the United Nations, with observers from the progressive European press, and with any luck at all we could avoid unpleasantness like the communal slaughter that marred the partition of British India.