Its nice to see Seceding from the U.S. isn't stuck in the 19th Century

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap_on_re_us/secessionist_movement_1


Apparently Vermont wants to secede. There is a movement afloat in the Northwest which used to be relegated only to those south of the Mason-Dixon line. Certain states of the union want to secede. Upset by the war in Iraq the Middlebury Institute wants liberal states to secede peacefully if they desire to do so. Obviously it has to be peaceful as I'm pretty sure all of Vermont's national guard is in Iraq anyways. So then you're stuck with a bunch of state troopers with rifles trying to stop M1-Abrams tanks and stealth fighters. I think Vermont is really just tired of having to say "Made in the USA" on their maple syrup. Its more important for them to separate. It would create a very awkward situation for Maine being stuck on a foreign border with the independent sultanate of Vermont (Im just assuming they will have a sultan because it sounds the coolest, certainly better than an emirate, or a kingdom, or a empire- c'mon no one is going to think about the Empire of Vermont).

Who knows what actually will happen. A lot of people in this country don't want to secede (or even know what it means). History is a roll of the dice.