Fair enough. Just keep them to that island then. I don’t want deplorables ruining the lives of anyone else.
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Exactly. Why let these racist corrupt fools ruin it for the rest of the people in the state. Let the deplorables settle somewhere uninhabited and leave the rest of us respectable people alone.
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I dunno, man. Putting people in camps is one thing that makes them deplorable.
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Want to hear something weird?
This idea of a separate conservative utopia in Mississippi is explored in The Universe Next Door by Robert Anton Wilson. Mississippi is set aside as an autonomous zone for anyone who doesn’t want to live in a modern technological utopia. Food and other supplies are air dropped in.
My only objection is that there would have to be a refugee process that assists those who wish to leave.
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Thank you for bringing this story to my attention it’s on my reading list now.
I’m doubtful that letting the GOP leave would fix anything. The problem in the US is unbounded free speech. There are no consequences for broadcasting lies.
Having a rogue state in the middle of the US would eventually rip the rest of the union apart.
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Mississippi Goddamn
What a glorious performance. Still makes me weep. And Nina Simone sure got that right: “TOO SLOW.”
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That map of Mississippi is really instructive. The little stack of blue counties in the east (and Marshall county and 2-3 red counties in between) are on top of a fertile band of soil called the Black Belt. The “black” refers to the soil, not the population, but it might as well, because – like the blue strip beside the Mississippi River – it was cotton plantation country. The red areas most of the rest of the state are either pine forests or grasslands, relatively infertile soils.
So the blue areas have relatively few white people, even today, and the red areas have impoverished white people, with an increasing population of white-flight people around the urban areas. “Areas” is sort of optimistic, around Jackson and Starkville, and those two red counties just south of Memphis (which may be, in my experience the most racist place in the US).
What I’m getting at is that there are long-standing cultural patterns based on extractive economies and slave labor – essentially oligarchic societies. There’s a blip in history when some freed persons established viable, self-sustaining communities in western Mississippi, but many of them were screwed out of their land when it became apparent that there was money in timber, as well as something I dimly remember about railway buy-outs.
Alabama is very much the same, except of course for the port of Mobile, which has lead to some light and even heavy industry starting to transform Alabama’s economic landscape. Though International Paper is probably going to prevent much significant change, in terms of red/blue counties.
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Alabama makes the belt even more obvious. Look at the map on Wikipedia.
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I recently drove through Elmore, Coosa, and Talapoosa counties - ones filling up the dip in the middle of the blue counties. They are full of rabid pro-Trump folks. All along these little two-lane highways are shacks and houses festooned in Trump paraphernalia.
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“some angry liberals” vs “some angry conservatives”. Sounds like a good ticket for a MMA matchup–conducted in a Southern swamp. Otherwise called mud wrestling.
But there are some beautiful islands out at the end of the Aleutian chain. Some of them even come with their own geothermal energy sources. A big plus for them is that they are difficult to access.
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I am not saying putting people there. Just advertise it as a potential libertarian paradise. Warm tropical island they can call their own. We don’t have to include the bits about the nuclear waste dome. Think of it like the Fyre Festival writ large.
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Turn it into a feature.
Libertopia’s second amendment protects your right to own dirty bombs, unlike the authoritarian statists on the mainland.
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Plus no bears.
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The Japanese take black bears pretty seriously. I was in a national park in Nagano a few years back. The path was more or less a wooden boardwalk over a deep swamp with only about 9’ wide. As I was going deeper into the park, I found a group of people heading the other direction. They had a “bear repellent app” on their phone. I thought nothing of it. Going deeper in the woods and eventually by ourselves.
Then about 15 minutes later my wife and I heard a low pitch growl in the distance. We turned around and felt safe once we saw the presence of other people. I figured I could leave the bears where they were. If they were near, I wanted to make sure they had more choices of people. 
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Georgia, too. There is a swath of counties in the center of the state that went democratic, along with Savannah, Athens, and the ATL metro counties.
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“Scare Bear Trail Companion ” app as a 99-cent digital solution to frighten bears on the trail. Users can choose between the sound of an airhorn, bear bells, hands clapping, or rocks shaking in a tin can, which they activate by shaking the iPhone.
Either the best 99 cents you ever spent or the one time you might wish you didn’t cheap out on your security measures.
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just tell them “cancer” is a liberal hoax
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