re: #214 makeitstop

The actual math on secession just doesn’t work— hell, it didn’t work back in the civil war days, but especially not now. Those states depend on the Federal government funding them. If Kansas seceded, it’d become a largely agrarian state having to trade that surplus (now without any federal subsidies for farmers, having to pay now for US weather reports even if the US kept doing them, without US officials doing soil sampling, etc. etc.) for manufactured goods.

Historically, that is not the side of the equation you want to be on. They’d basically be creating a third-world country, bounded on all sides by the US and completely dependent on them.