tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post179905558196098286..comments2023-10-14T23:56:22.016-10:00Comments on Reflecting Light: States' rights redivivus?Rick Darbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02371910140619422820noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-10704171796832333632007-09-07T10:46:00.000-10:002007-09-07T10:46:00.000-10:00Flanders Fields had some good caveats on any sort ...Flanders Fields had some good caveats on any sort of states' rights proposal in a comment on <A HREF="http://bravenewworldwatch.blogspot.com/2007/07/some-reservations-about-federalism.html" REL="nofollow">one of my old posts</A>. It sounds good, but with modern mobility, it's very difficult to enforce certain laws that would attempt to make one state different from another.John Savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09204911551117542124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-8298147338098911492007-08-31T08:35:00.000-10:002007-08-31T08:35:00.000-10:00I agree with both of your points.The two countries...I agree with both of your points.<BR/><BR/>The two countries are forming, slowly, as people like myself "migrate", many unconsciously, away from the places worst hit by immigration. I'm deliberately looking not just for a "nice" place but a place that looks like it will be on the right side of the divide 10 years from now.<BR/><BR/>We'll still have that little problem of a civil war of course. The open borders nation will not want to lose all its most valuable people no more than the more populated North wanted to lose the South.<BR/><BR/>WV looks very interesting. For all the "poverty" it seems fabulously wealthy in regard to the attributes I'm looking for.Tanstaaflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10809764986911255031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-29389151089326905342007-08-31T04:47:00.000-10:002007-08-31T04:47:00.000-10:00tanstaafl,You're quite right that many local gover...tanstaafl,<BR/><BR/>You're quite right that many local governments, mainly in large cities with heavy concentrations of ethnic populations and academic liberals, have done their bit to make things worse. Still, if there is a chance to turn things around, it is more likely to gather momentum in a number of localities and states than at the federal level.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes I wish this country could be partitioned into two, so that people who believe in open borders could have their country and the rest of us have ours. Perhaps unfortunately, there is no practicable way to bring that about.Rick Darbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02371910140619422820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-76889256849314154142007-08-30T16:16:00.000-10:002007-08-30T16:16:00.000-10:00Unfortunately the feds hold most of the real power...Unfortunately the feds hold most of the real power. Besides that, the <A HREF="http://www.ojjpac.org/sanctuary.asp" REL="nofollow">large number of sanctuary cities</A> demonstrates that our state and local governments are as deeply complicit in this invasion as the feds are.Tanstaaflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10809764986911255031noreply@blogger.com