But what if the liberal states evicted the nuts....?

[identity profile] zornhau.livejournal.com 2010-10-11 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously, what's the benefit for a liberal state in sharing any sort of polity with the bible belt?

Re: But what if the liberal states evicted the nuts....?

[identity profile] bart-calendar.livejournal.com 2010-10-11 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Cheap food.

If we let them become a separate country they could charge us import taxes on fruit and vegetables and cotton and other agriproducts that we are used to getting dirt cheap.

Re: But what if the liberal states evicted the nuts....?

[identity profile] zornhau.livejournal.com 2010-10-11 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't US farming heavily subsidised anyway? Couldn't you get the food elsewhere?

Re: But what if the liberal states evicted the nuts....?

[identity profile] bart-calendar.livejournal.com 2010-10-11 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Where?

Canada's even colder and less fruit friendly than the Northeast, Mexico would be between us and them and it costs a lot more money to bring fruit and veg across an ocean than to drive it up Highway 9.

Re: But what if the liberal states evicted the nuts....?

[identity profile] heron61.livejournal.com 2010-10-11 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Lots of food comes from California, and most of the grain comes from states that could go either way. The only thing that I see being a major loss is oil.