Sunday, July 17, 2005

Will South Carolina Secede Once Again?

This is a little scary (see the link, above). A group called Christian Exodus plans to turn South Carolina into a fundamentalist Christian state by moving thousands of people there. They hope that the combination of religious-conservative migrants, the current fundamentalist population of South Carolina, and the state's strong state's rights tradition will enable them to establish a government that conforms to their values (which, I should add, are not necessarily values shared by many Christians nor many current residents of the Palmetto State). If the Federal Government (which this group detests) interferes with the state's new political agenda, Christian Exodus and its hypothetical puppet government of South Carolina are prepared to secede from the Union. I don't think this group has the numbers to pull this off; but American politics would get really interesting if they were to do so.

1 Comments:

Blogger John said...

I'm not sure that this would be such a bad thing.

2:26 PM  

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