Will Scotland leave the UK?

[scootsy]

Serious? I've thought CA should split into at least 3 states for a while now. Staying that big is stupid.

SoCal can't afford to break away form NorCal. Too dependent on some natural resources, I think water/water rights or some ****.

 

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Not surprisingly that is not super far off of the breakdown by population.

I think the ratio of population to representation is to large no matter how you divide the states.

3 Countries 1 Nation
I would alter the constitution to allow for 3 separate branches of the Executive and Legislative. Keep the Supreme court and constitution unified. Each country would submit 3 judges to the Supreme court. An amendment would require a super majority approval from each country and a national vote. The borders between the countries would be the continental divide and the Mississippi river. The states within in country would be decided by that country and the borders would follow watershed borders.

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We could also invite Canada and Mexico to Take part and submit 3 judges of their own. Not sure they would accept the US constitution though and I am certain that US citizens would not accept theirs.

 

[DutchJazzer]

put this abortion back on track:


mercy? or FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ubag7dtn4



hope there are still enough real MEN left in scotland, to vote for freedom.

 

[DutchJazzer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEOOZDbMrgE

 

[PearlWatson]

I'm diggin some of the names.

Big Thicket
King
Atchafalaya
Chinati

 

[babe]

The Sun Is Riz. . ..

I'm diggin some of the names.

Big Thicket
King
Atchafalaya
Chinati

Looks like I'll be in Shiprock. ?????Shipwreck?????? On the high Colorado plateau??? In the Basin/Range Nevada wilderness????

The greatest thing about Texas was the postcards in the gas stations two hundred miles west of San Antonio, which in one way or another depicted the jingle:

"The sun is riz, the sun is set. . . . an' we ain't outta Texas yet."

Yah, somewhere five hundred miles west of Amarillo, the card will complain "We ain't outta Shiprock yet".


America will lose it's national identity without Texas.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6vDzf-wSbk

 

[Stoked]

Looks like I'll be in Shiprock. ?????Shipwreck?????? On the high Colorado plateau??? In the Basin/Range Nevada wilderness????

The greatest thing about Texas was the postcards in the gas stations two hundred miles west of San Antonio, which in one way or another depicted the jingle:

"The sun is riz, the sun is set. . . . an' we ain't outta Texas yet."

Yah, somewhere five hundred miles west of Amarillo, the card will complain "We ain't outta Shiprock yet".


America will lose it's national identity without Texas.

I'd also be in Shiprock.

 

[Stifle Tower]

I'm diggin some of the names.

Big Thicket
King
Atchafalaya
Chinati

Actually, there is already one state which has the correct name: New Mexico.
Need to add So Cal, and the southern parts of Texas and AZ to that. Most appropriate name in the U.S.!

Pres. Obama: TEAR DOWN THOSE WALLS (er, fences).

 

[babe]

Actually, there is already one state which has the correct name: New Mexico.
Need to add So Cal, and the southern parts of Texas and AZ to that. Most appropriate name in the U.S.!

Pres. Obama: TEAR DOWN THOSE WALLS (er, fences).

I'm all for this.

The political and legal penalties are too much for human beings who might want to go south. Let's invade Mexico and make it a new territory, like Utah was, with carpetbagger governors and laws giving sections of land to American Robber Barons who build Walmarts down there. . . . .

Call it fighting for freedom, or something. Making the World Safe for US. "The New NEW WORLD ORDER".

 

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Scotland votes 'NO' for independence.

The Union Jack is safe...

For now.

 

[Gameface]

Scotland votes 'NO' for independence.

The Union Jack is safe...

For now.

What was the margin?

 

[DutchJazzer]

What was the margin?

55% to 45%.

 

[moevillini]

very high voter turnout, 85% - a new record!

The previous record turnout for a UK-wide election was 83.9% in the 1950 general election.

In Scotland, the previous record was 81.2% - set by the 1951 general election, when Winston Churchill's Conservatives defeated Labour - ousting Clement Atlee as Prime Minister.

I also heard that 16 year olds were allowed to vote - it wasn't clear if that was a special ruling for this election or if that's the general voting age in Scotland.

https://news.sky.com/story/1338396/astonishing-turnout-breaks-uk-voting-records

edit: apparently a special ruling for this specific referendum

Scotland's government declared two years ago that the voting age would be lowered from 18 to 16 for this referendum. At the time, most everyone thought a solid majority of the newest and youngest voters would help the independence campaign.

But Jan Eichhorn, a professor of social policy at the University of Edinburgh, says that assumption was wrong on several levels.

"The 16-, 17-year-olds are under 3 percent of the vote. So they were never going to be vote decisive," he says.

Eichhorn has conducted surveys of Scottish teenagers, and his findings on their political views defied expectations: The 16- and 17-year-olds are on average slightly less likely than adults to vote for independence.

And, he says, the level of political interest among teenagers is as high as among adults. Ninety-seven percent of all of the people who are eligible to vote in Scotland have registered.

https://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/09/17/349085178/for-scotlands-16-year-olds-the-first-vote-will-be-on-independence

 

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Wh voted yes?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/scotland-referendum-who-voted-yes-4286743

 

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[franklin]

very high voter turnout, 85% - a new record!



I also heard that 16 year olds were allowed to vote - it wasn't clear if that was a special ruling for this election or if that's the general voting age in Scotland.

https://news.sky.com/story/1338396/astonishing-turnout-breaks-uk-voting-records

edit: apparently a special ruling for this specific referendum


https://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/09/17/349085178/for-scotlands-16-year-olds-the-first-vote-will-be-on-independence

What's the opposite word for geriatricmandering? Pedomandering? Adomandering? Juvenandering?

 

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lol