Richard Baker wrote: > > Julia said: > > > The thing is, Texas has more to lose by leaving the US than it has to > > gain, and most of us understand that. The parallel doesn't quite work. > > Okay, choose some other state. I was just trying to make people imagine > how they might feel if a foreign Israel was set up in the Palestinian > US. I'd imagine quite a lot of Americans would be rather upset about > the whole thing, and try to expel it, and keep trying to do so for > decades using whatever methods are available. Furthermore, many would > continue trying to do so long after it became apparent that the > destruction of the new state wasn't possible. > > (I'm not picking on America: the same thing would probably happen in > Britain and many other countries too.) >
If you want to think up an analogy, try something like: USA loses a war in a big way. After much political maneuvering and a few terrorist-style attacks and perhaps an uprising or two, the victors, whomever they are, decide that some the lands ceded at the end of the Mexican War rightfully belong to Mexico, as they are part of the Mexican homeland, and return them. Now can you say that the people who used to have USA citizenship would happily become Mexican citizens? Would they leave for other parts of the USA? or would they turn to other, um, less politically acceptable methods, even if it seems that there's no hope of returning to the situation as it was before the land transfer? -- Matt _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
