Two-thirds of Southern Republicans want to secede

... and the poll also shows that 47% of Democrats on the West coast want the same thing.

... but forgetting all that, we need to remember that these online political polls are of garbage quality.

... oh, and also the content probably doesn't belong on HN at all.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

The South would have control of the Mississippi watershed and thus eventually control of North America, the Pacific would have nice weather?

But please - that 'storming of the US Capitol' was a joke - those people were pretty well behaved, and waved in by the police. I suspect to provide a justification to portray republicans badly later on. All those riots, in Portland etc, in the middle of epidemic? Those are fine and can carry on for months.