Why No Thread About Colorado and Talk There Of Seceding?

[Dinner]

Have you not read about the growing movement in Colorado's northern counties desire to secede from Colorado and form their own state?
You talk about Texas to no end, doesn't Colorado deserve at least some acknowledgement? I know it's not some big deal like Texas, but still...

Because 1) It's not growing 2) virtually no one supports it 3) it was being pushed by a Republican jackass who was upset that they lost most of the state wide elections so this was their "I'm taking my marbles home" moment. 4) everyone just laughed at him.

To compare the governor of Texas makes some throw away comment about seccession designed to placate the dumb apes in Texas and the dump apes in Texas go wild.

[Dinner]

Why don't these former parts of greater Texas reunite?

Are you kidding? They worked real hard to get away from you dumb ****s and did so the second they got a chance.

[MikeH]

if we had colorado posters with idiotic state pride, we'd probably talk about it

[PLATO]

Little chance of the Colorado legislature agreeing to this. U.S. House, otoh, being controlled by Republicans might just get a woody over the prospect of an additional two Republican Senators.

[molly bloom]

Rarely do I start a thread about Texas. I may respond to another's thread. You, on the other hand, constantly start threads about kock smokers.
Who has a chip on their shoulder?

You're sure it's a chip ? Not peut-etre, a freedom fry ?

[rah]

There's nut jobs everywhere. There used to be a few that were proposing that Chicago secede from Illinois. (since they were more important than the rest of the state combined)

[Tuberski]

There's nut jobs everywhere. There used to be a few that were proposing that Chicago secede from Illinois. (since they were more important than the rest of the state combined)

Yeah, but the ones proposing it lived in the other parts of the state.

ACK!

[Felch]

Those counties are stupid and there is even less constitutional basis for secession from a state than there is for secession from the union. (as in, they literally are forbidden from doing so unless the state legislature decides to let them)

West Virginia seceded without state approval, but that was when Virginia was off on a vacation from the Union.

[MRT144]

That is certainly one of the considerations. There are others. Someone in the back of the classroom. What is another?

How ****ing poor and vampirey is this new state going to be. Instead of sucking the Denver metro dry, now the federal government gets the honor? Oh and we are going to have 3+ obstructionist Republicans in federal office too?

GTFO Northern Colorado.

[MRT144]

Yeah, but the ones proposing it lived in the other parts of the state.

ACK!

Because people that live in rural districts have an outsized sense of importance until they realize that theyd be ****ing mississippi levels of poor without a giant metro area pumping the state coffers. We see it in Washington all the time.

[MRT144]

Little chance of the Colorado legislature agreeing to this. U.S. House, otoh, being controlled by Republicans might just get a woody over the prospect of an additional two Republican Senators.

Republican Senators that will have to support their state mostly through federal money.

[regexcellent]

I seriously doubt it. The cattle industry there is reasonably profitable. Government money is actually not the grease that keeps the economy going.

[Tuberski]

Because people that live in rural districts have an outsized sense of importance until they realize that theyd be ****ing mississippi levels of poor without a giant metro area pumping the state coffers. We see it in Washington all the time.

Or, I could have been making a joke.

ACK!

[MRT144]

Or, I could have been making a joke. [ATTACH=CONFIG]174617[/ATTACH]

ACK!

A joke with some grain of truth. I have relatives in Peoria that align more closely with St Louis than Chicago for some god awful reason.

[Ben Kenobi]

How ****ing poor and vampirey is this new state going to be. Instead of sucking the Denver metro dry, now the federal government gets the honor? Oh and we are going to have 3+ obstructionist Republicans in federal office too?

Weld is actually pretty big for a county. 180k people, smaller than WY, but a plausible size for a small state. They actually are pretty wealthy too. Weld isn't that rural. I've travelled through it.