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Stirrings of Secession
Taki's Magazine, November 30, 2012
“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another ...”
So begins the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies from the king and country to which they had given allegiance since the settlers first came to Jamestown and Plymouth Rock.
The declaration was signed by 56 angry old white guys who had had enough of what the Cousins were doing to them. In seceding from the mother country, these patriots put their lives, fortunes and honor on the line.
Four score and five years later, 11 states invoked the same right “to dissolve the political bands” of the Union and form a new nation. After 620,000 had perished, the issue of a state’s right to secede was settled at Appomattox. If that right had existed, it no longer did.
What are we to make, then, of petitions from 25,000 citizens of each of seven Southern states—116,000 from Texas alone—to secede? . . .
"What author William Bishop called 'The Big Sort'—the sorting out of people by political beliefs—proceeds. Eighteen states have gone Democratic in six straight presidential elections. A similar number have gone Republican." . . .
The Big Sort is more fundamentally along racial lines. Even in cluelessly utopian San Francisco, Malibu, Portland, Austin or Manhattan you find only a teensy percentage of white liberals merrily immersing themselves in minority neighborhoods. The 'blue' states, excepting the Northeast and north Midwest, were made that way mostly due to demographic changes brought about by decades-old federal policies anti-democratically mandating open borders to the Third World, polices that have been supported by many members of congress from 'red' states as well. (Today many conservatives residing in red states seem oblivious to the relentless demographic changes that are rapidly transforming their own states.)
To the extent that the ideal--that for which we are all told we are supposed to be striving--diverse neighborhoods actually exist, they tend to be temporary artificial environments, such as university, scientific or diplomatic enclaves that are not only temporary, with few people residing there for a lifetime, but are usually thoroughly held together by Western assumptions, rules, values, lifestyles and, especially, wealth. So when we look more closely at these wonderfully scintillating transformative vibrant examples of diversity, we discover all is illusory.
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