We interrupt this program for a secession reality check.
As of last night, there are petitions in seven states urging
secession from the United States. The
signature breakdown follows:
Texas 108,000 (.421%
of state population)
Louisiana 35,000 (.765% of
state population)Tennessee 29,000 (.453% of state population)
Georgia 30,000 (.306% of state population)
North Carolina 28,000 (.290% of state population)
Florida 32,000 (.168% of state population)
Alabama 28,000 (.583% of state population)
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Total 290,000 signatures
Wow! 290,000 is a
pretty hefty number. That number of
people would fill the huge Los Angeles Coliseum (former home of my beloved football
Rams) almost three times! Holy shit! Dust off your quills and start drafting your
constitutions!
If I did my math right (and please remember, I suck at
math!), 290,000 signatures is only NINETY-THREE ONE THOUSANDTHS of ONE percent
of the total population of the United States.
I think the mathematical formula goes something like:
290,000 x 100 / 311,591,917 = 0.093070450219669851063562730351571
Again – that’s NINETY-THREE ONE THOUSANDTHS of ONE percent
of our citizenry.
In closing, I encourage secessionists, and wannabe
secessionists to use the numbers to put these numbers, and everything else into
perspective.
Abraham Lincoln once urged us to remember that a "government
of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
1 comment:
There's also a recent survey showing that 25% of all Republicans want their state to secede. But I'm guessing most of that was just idle grumbling and griping. If they felt this strongly enough, they would have signed one of those secession petitions.
It's not gonna happen in any case. We're all gonna have to live together and make it work, whether we like it or not.
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