The State of.... South Florida??

[RU OX Alum]

Now would be a good time, I guess, with the national guard out of town.

[violetpretty]

Northern Virginia feels the same way about the rest of the state.

[33girl]

If this happens, West PA & East PA are next. Breezewood = PA Mason/Dixon line.

[ForeverRoses]

What about the UP of Michigan? Do they still want to be their own state? (I think they wanted to be called "Superior").

[NutBrnHair]

Maybe Georgia can annex North FL and leave us alone here in Tennessee. (The GA state legislature wants to move the TN/GA line to include part of a lake to help ease their water shortage.)

[Munchkin03]

Charlie Crisp is acting like this dude is crazy, but he's really crazy like a fox! I've been saying that there needs to be a North Florida and a South Florida for at least 10 years now. I always had the dividing line being somewhere between Ocala and Orlando. North Florida, however, needs to be its own state and not connected to Alabama or Georgia, since those other two states will drag us down.

[NutBrnHair]

[Thetagirl218]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

I always had the dividing line being somewhere between Ocala and Orlando. North Florida, however, needs to be its own state and not connected to Alabama or Georgia, since those other two states will drag us down.

Can we move that line a little further south??? Maybe to Tampa?

Having a been born and raised a Florida girl, I can honestly say there are three different parts of the great State of Florida, South, Mid, and North.

I would say South Florida would stop in the middle of the state south of the Polk County line. Tampa Bay, Orlando, and Daytona are very much their own mid-state culture.
North Florida would be Ocala northward. Having gone to school in Jacksonville, I can honestly say it is more like Southern Georgia than Florida.

I am vaguely remembering from my Florida history class that West Florida used to be its own country/ republic that stretched from Tallahassee to Mobile during the 1700s....

[CBU Jeff]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

Maybe Georgia can annex North FL and leave us alone here in Tennessee. (The GA state legislature wants to move the TN/GA line to include part of a lake to help ease their water shortage.)

That's crazy.

[fantASTic]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

What about the UP of Michigan? Do they still want to be their own state? (I think they wanted to be called "Superior").

I'm sure they would love to...but alas, our yooper buddies could NEVER support their own state. We give them a lot of money, because we love them, and also because they make delicious pasties.

[Tom Earp]

This is so funny but yet can be so true!

There are States that are divided by either distance, race, if some wish to call it that?

Missouri is and was devided during the Civil War as many of know it.

So is Fl., Penn., California, so who actually cares?

There was a study at one time about Metro Areas with Metro Govts. combining to be leave it or not keeping Costs down!

Oh, that would not happen would it?

Okay, name Major Cities that could do this?

Cutting down Govrrnment costs!

Can You?

K C Mo./ K C Ks. being one.

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

What about the UP of Michigan? Do they still want to be their own state? (I think they wanted to be called "Superior").

Years ago when I was working at a TV station in Milwaukee, NBC premiered it's big election night map (and the used of the colors of red and blue at the same time).

I had to call the executive producer of election coverage at the network to tell him that the map included the UP as a part of Wisconsin instead of Michigan.

Not sure how the UP residents (or Northern Wisconsin for that matter) would have felt about that, but it cost the network a fair amount of money to fix their geographical error.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Northern Virginia feels the same way about the rest of the state.

yeah, I know. That is where my reference to the Nat'l guard came in.

to explain: the aol guy said "what would you do if i got a group together to push this" and gilmore (i think he was gov. at the time) said "I'd send in the national guard. what would you do about that?"

It won't happen, in either state. They would just have the same problems again and again and we can't just keep adding new states willy nilly. If South Florida seccedes from Florida, they seccede from the United States, they should have to re-apply for Union.

[shinerbock]

I support this plan...so long as only North FL remains in the United States.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

somewhere I read (don't remember) and don't know if its true ... but I remember reading somewhere that Texas has the right to split itself into 5 states if it wants ...

also I always thought there should be Baja California and Alta California ... So. Calif. is so different from No. Calif