The South May Rise Again
http://www.chronwatch-america.com/articles/2987/1/The-South-May-Rise-Again/Page1.html
Robert Klein Engler
Robert Klein Engler lives in Chicago, and is a graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School. His book, ''A Winter of Words,'' about turmoil at Daley College, is available from http://amazon.com.By Robert Klein Engler
Published on 05/31/2008
A recent trip to Louisiana gave me an opportunity to imagine events that may occur after the next election. What may the United States of America look like if Senator Barack Obama were elected president?
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OAK PARK, Ill.--A recent trip to Louisiana gave me an opportunity to imagine events that may occur after the next election. What may the United States of America look like if Senator Barack Obama were elected president?
It seems that we live at a time where the political divisions between people are no longer mended by reason. The Reverend Wright controversy, and now the Father Phleger Chicago outburst demonstrate just how out of contact with traditional American values and expectations some of Senator Obama's followers are.
Tradition is something that is still important in the South. The state of Louisiana has less outward mobility than any state in the union. Those fortunate enough to be born in Louisiana, usually stay there and cling to their guns or their religion
The southern states also have many large military bases and in the case of Louisiana and Texas, border the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana has access to a large port in New Orleans and to sources of oil that make it strategically crucial for the industrialized north and Western United States.
Let's imagine that a newly sworn-in President Obama decides, after helping pass "comprehensive immigration reform," that adds by amnesty millions of socialists to the voting rolls, to nationalize the U. S. oil companies. This nationalization could be the precipitating incident, like the firing on Fort Sumter, that may start the second secession of states from the union.
Our first civil war started when the Confederacy decided to seize federal property. Why can't the second secession start with just the opposite action, the federal government seizing state and private property? In politics, events come out of the blue all the time.
We live in an age when most things are their opposite. Some say we live under a "volcanic shower of corruption and misrule." There is a new movie called "Sex in the City," which is about straight women pretending to be gay men. If you can imagine that, than an action by the federal government to nationalize the oil companies is not hard to imagine.
Just recently, at a House of Representative hearing, Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California threatened to do just that--nationalize the oil industry. You'd think she'd know before getting elected to Washington that oil and water do not mix.
After the election of President Obama, Texas may be the first state to secede from the United States. Many Texans believe their state still has the right to leave the union if they want to go. The Texas constitution reads, "Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States..."
Louisiana will be the next to follow the example of Texas, then the rest of the southern states with the exception of Florida may do the same. Large numbers of Latinos in Florida and California will make those states take an independent course. Florida may look to South America while California will become part of Mexico, if it isn't already.
After the southern states secede, Alaska may join the Confederacy, along with those states in the central United States up to North and South Dakota and the Canadian border. At that time, tension in Canadian society may make the western provinces of Canada break away and join the new Confederate States of America.
A revised political map of North America suggests how the new Confederate States of America may cut the old United States in half, leaving the midwest and New England separated from the west coast. The Confederate States will now have what they need to survive: military power, energy in the form of oil, and a source of food they need not import.
The new Confederate States of America would not have to wait long for recognition from European powers. Great Britain would be the first to do so. That nation leaned towards the Confederacy during our first civil war. Then, Russia and China, each seeing political and economic advantages with the old United States shattered, will recognize the new C. S. A. Then, the United Nations will do what it always does, talk about it.
Back in North America, the new Confederate States can then begin political and economic pressure on what remains of the United States. The new Confederacy will use its control of oil to shape its foreign policy. One long, cold winter in Chicago, New York, and Boston may see concessions by the Democrats in these cities and what remains of Congress in Washington, D. C.
I asked a friend of mine about this scenario when I return to winter in Illinois. "Well, the Left wants to destroy the United States as we know it, anyway," he said. "Serves 'em right! We have a President who thinks there are 57 states, so losing a few here and there may make no difference to him."
Besides, he said he was sick of the cold weather up north and Democratic politics and high taxes. "I'd move to the new Confederacy just to get warm," he added. "Then, I'd help them dust off that old statue of Jefferson Davis, to boot."
It seems that we live at a time where the political divisions between people are no longer mended by reason. The Reverend Wright controversy, and now the Father Phleger Chicago outburst demonstrate just how out of contact with traditional American values and expectations some of Senator Obama's followers are.
Tradition is something that is still important in the South. The state of Louisiana has less outward mobility than any state in the union. Those fortunate enough to be born in Louisiana, usually stay there and cling to their guns or their religion
The southern states also have many large military bases and in the case of Louisiana and Texas, border the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana has access to a large port in New Orleans and to sources of oil that make it strategically crucial for the industrialized north and Western United States.
Let's imagine that a newly sworn-in President Obama decides, after helping pass "comprehensive immigration reform," that adds by amnesty millions of socialists to the voting rolls, to nationalize the U. S. oil companies. This nationalization could be the precipitating incident, like the firing on Fort Sumter, that may start the second secession of states from the union.
Our first civil war started when the Confederacy decided to seize federal property. Why can't the second secession start with just the opposite action, the federal government seizing state and private property? In politics, events come out of the blue all the time.
We live in an age when most things are their opposite. Some say we live under a "volcanic shower of corruption and misrule." There is a new movie called "Sex in the City," which is about straight women pretending to be gay men. If you can imagine that, than an action by the federal government to nationalize the oil companies is not hard to imagine.
Just recently, at a House of Representative hearing, Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California threatened to do just that--nationalize the oil industry. You'd think she'd know before getting elected to Washington that oil and water do not mix.
After the election of President Obama, Texas may be the first state to secede from the United States. Many Texans believe their state still has the right to leave the union if they want to go. The Texas constitution reads, "Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States..."
Louisiana will be the next to follow the example of Texas, then the rest of the southern states with the exception of Florida may do the same. Large numbers of Latinos in Florida and California will make those states take an independent course. Florida may look to South America while California will become part of Mexico, if it isn't already.
After the southern states secede, Alaska may join the Confederacy, along with those states in the central United States up to North and South Dakota and the Canadian border. At that time, tension in Canadian society may make the western provinces of Canada break away and join the new Confederate States of America.
A revised political map of North America suggests how the new Confederate States of America may cut the old United States in half, leaving the midwest and New England separated from the west coast. The Confederate States will now have what they need to survive: military power, energy in the form of oil, and a source of food they need not import.
The new Confederate States of America would not have to wait long for recognition from European powers. Great Britain would be the first to do so. That nation leaned towards the Confederacy during our first civil war. Then, Russia and China, each seeing political and economic advantages with the old United States shattered, will recognize the new C. S. A. Then, the United Nations will do what it always does, talk about it.
Back in North America, the new Confederate States can then begin political and economic pressure on what remains of the United States. The new Confederacy will use its control of oil to shape its foreign policy. One long, cold winter in Chicago, New York, and Boston may see concessions by the Democrats in these cities and what remains of Congress in Washington, D. C.
I asked a friend of mine about this scenario when I return to winter in Illinois. "Well, the Left wants to destroy the United States as we know it, anyway," he said. "Serves 'em right! We have a President who thinks there are 57 states, so losing a few here and there may make no difference to him."
Besides, he said he was sick of the cold weather up north and Democratic politics and high taxes. "I'd move to the new Confederacy just to get warm," he added. "Then, I'd help them dust off that old statue of Jefferson Davis, to boot."