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APACHE JUNCTION, AZ (IFS) -- President Trump continues his half baked idea for the Border
Patrol to shoot innocence men, women and children that cross our borders asking for asylum and a safe haven from harm and crime. At the same time, he wants Russia to take over the United States because they are of a white race -- a pure white race.
Trumps dislike for people of color permeates the thread of American society. It's at a point where the old Booker T. Washington's axiom of "Separate But Equal" is starting to reverberate across the United States. The idea of Afro-Americans having their own states, and technically their own country apart from the United States is quickly gaining ground.
What will happen to the States after the United States of America is dissolved? It's a question that is coming out of the clouds and appears to be a reality in the coming years.
When the AFro-Americans are given their states and all of the whites have moved out of those areas, it will not last for too long. First, there are too many white mothers with black babies, and there are too many black mothers with white babies. So the concept of "Separate But Equal" will not work, as family matters "Trumps" all of the above. Secondly, not all AFro-Americans will move from why they resided, and not all White Americans are going to move out of their surroundings for the same reasons. They all love the places where they live.
https://medium.com/@jackkrupansky/should-we-dissolve-the-united-states-138a19c52028
Should We Dissolve the United States?
Seriously irreconcilable differences and very deep social and political divisions argue strongly in favor of at least contemplating the prospect of dissolving the United States with the prospect that states can form regional or ideological federations which are practically and ideologically more compatible than the current union.
Is it time to face the music, throw in the towel, and admit that our differences are just too serious and too irreconcilable and that the social and political divisions are just too deep, too broad and too many?
Is it maybe time for the individual states or at least groups of like-minded states to go their own way?
Is the current union of states more of a hindrance than a help? Is it in fact preventing states from forming a more perfect union?
Are we settling for mediocre when we can have much better?
It may well be too soon to take such a draconian step — it is, but it may also be time to start thinking about it.
If nothing else, thinking about the ramifications of dissolution may inspire us to find a way forward within the existing constitutional framework.
To be clear, this is only a preliminary proposal to be contemplated and discussed, not a formal proposal for immediate action.
If the US federal government was dissolved and each state became independent, what would happen and how would each state fare on its own?
8 Answers
Ken Rabon, Registered Nurse (1991-present)
Answered May 9 2017 · Author has 3k answers and 2.6m answer views
It would be chaotic. What we can’t know is which states, if any, would survive as independent countries. Consider
- The Port of Los Angeles, aka “America’s Port” would arguably lose both USCG and other Department of Homeland Security services.
- How would California’s tie to the the electrical grid be changed? Where would power be diverted to?
- It seems very likely Arizona would give serious consideration to no longer selling water from the Colorado River to California. The Colorado provides about 60% of the irrigation and urban water for Southern California.
- Many states have federal facilities. While the facilities themselves would arguably remain, who would staff them? It is not necessarily true that a state with one or more such facilities has people with the training, skill and interest to run them.
- Both California and Texas make a similar argument. To wit, “we would be just fine if we weren’t part of the US or any other country.” The issue with that, of course, is that both states, like all the others, have their finance, industry, trade and agriculture tied to both other states and the federal government.
America isn’t an easy country.
If you fall down, you’ll mostly get a lot of people trying not to make eye contact with you as you panhandle on the street. The fall can be even harsher if you’re African American—when your time on the street probably came with a stint in prison. But it’s not all doom and gloom for every black person in America. In fact, quite a few of us are doing pretty awesome despite a little problem like “institutionalized racism.” Why are many African Americans doing better? It could come down to one word.
Location. Location. Location.
We took a look at the worst states for black people, so by popular demand, I put on my research hat again to find the best states for black people. While some may be shocked to learn of any stateside safe haven, there are some—as long as you like either living in the extremes or elbowing your way through black college grads as they sip mimosas at white parties in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area.
Hawaii
Hawaii has a lot of things going for it. It’s a gorgeous tropical paradise. Shockingly, marijuana isn’t legal (except on a limited basis for medical use), despite the fact that everyone seems unnaturally chill all the time. It’s also the home state of President Barack Obama, and once you look at its statistics on race, you can see why Hawaii was the first state to produce the nation’s first black president.
The most racially diverse state in the union, Hawaii is ranked by the Ann E. Casey Foundation as the best state for raising black children. The foundation based its ranking on a statistical study of socioeconomic status, access to education and home life.
Hawaii’s incarceration rate for black people is astronomically lower than the national average. With Wisconsin—one of the worst states for black Americans—locking up African Americans to the tune of 4,416 for every 100,000 black people, Hawaii is much more proportional, imprisoning 851 for every 100,000 black Hawaiians (pdf). The national average for black imprisonment is 2,290 per 100,000. No wonder the president, who’s written about some youthful indiscretions involving pot, managed to toke it and not end up with a record, unlike so many other young black men throughout the United States. Obama grew up in the right state at the right time. Also, black people in Hawaii? They’re not broke. The state has the highest black household income at $66,629.
Alaska
I told you, you’d have to like living in the extremes. We go from the tropics to the tundra: Alaska is a surprising place to find that you may fare better than most. Up in the frozen north, black Americans boast average earnings of $51,780 per year, and the state of winter wonderlands is also the fourth-best place to raise a black child, according to the Casey Foundation study.
California
The state with the fourth-highest number of African Americans with bachelor’s degrees or higher also has sun, surf and Hollywood. When not being home to all your favorite (or most hated, depending on your taste) reality shows that don’t take place in Atlanta, California also holds the title as the second-most-diverse state in the U.S.
Maryland
Although Maryland catches a lot of grief for being the setting for The Wire, the reality for a lot of black Marylanders is less Stringer Bell and more George Jefferson. Maryland boasts the country’s highest rates of black homeownership and of blacks holding advanced degrees. Twenty-six percent of black Marylanders have a bachelor’s degree or higher. Blacks in Maryland also make a lot more money than black people in other states (the average income is $57,907) and live in some of the wealthiest black communities in the country—including Friendly, Bowie, Fort Washington, Mitchellville and Kettering—where the median income is between $89,500 and $110,000. It has the fifth-highest graduation rate for black high schoolers and ranks as the sixth-best place to raise your black child.
New Hampshire
With a median black household income of $46,818, New Hampshire looks like a great place to live. The high school graduation rate is 76 percent for black students—the fifth highest in the nation—and New Hampshire also ranks second, behind Hawaii, as the best place to raise a black child.
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