Secession Trend Up?

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Wouldn't this lead to Balkanization? I used to be a secessionist when I lived in California. When I was young and full of spunk and vigor. Some in that state wanted to divide it into two states but me, I just wanted to pull out entirely.

Back then Texas was constantly threatening to leave, I said, ''let em go''. I had visions of that Northwest Utopia that was dreamed up by Callenbach when he wrote '' Ecotopia''. Turns out that it was at heart a real sense of things. When I moved father north I found that in spirit it was already in practice with the undeclared state called ''Jefferson State''.

Now there is a move afoot for the annexation of much of Oregon by the state of Idaho to be called Greater Idaho. It would leave the commercial hubs of Portland, Salem and Eugene to the old Oregon. I don't know how this idea is playing out other than there have been a few votes in that direction.

But as for secession, well, I don't think it's desirable. Seems to me that the history of the world is one of accession, societies growing larger and larger until they bust. We might be on that cusp, no, I think we are. The results will not be nice to live with if you ask me.