An old friend posted this on facebook...

Dear Red States....
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> We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own
> country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us.
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> In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,
> Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the
> Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and
> especially to the people of the new country of New California.
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> To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave
> states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches.
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> You get Ken Lay. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get
> Dollywood. We get Intel, Apple and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get
> Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of America's venture
> capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama . We get two-thirds of the
> tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.
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> Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
> Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
> bunch of single moms.
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> Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and
> anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at
> once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have
> kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose,
> and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's
> caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the
> WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's
> Quagmire.
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> With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80
> percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the
> pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95
> percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state
> dinners), 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech
> industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods,
> sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus
> Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.
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> With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope
> with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health
> care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of
> the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 perc
> ent of all
> Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush
> Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
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> We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
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> Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe
> Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is
> sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44
> percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was
> involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are
> people with higher morals then we lefties.
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> By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that
> dirt weed they grow in Mexico .
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> Peace out, Blue States