The train of thought I'm on now is: why was keeping the Union together back in the civil war such a great thing?
Now we have this bloc of red states in the South who are backward, racist, intolerant science deniers, and they've managed to get just enough on the winning side of the electoral map to make the advanced, multicultural, cosmopolitan science-respecting blue states' lives miserable.
That chunk of states should be a separate country. Then they can go their own way and the rest of us can carry on without them.
Now we have this bloc of red states in the South who are backward, racist, intolerant science deniers, and they've managed to get just enough on the winning side of the electoral map to make the advanced, multicultural, cosmopolitan science-respecting blue states' lives miserable.
That chunk of states should be a separate country. Then they can go their own way and the rest of us can carry on without them.