The North LOST the Civil War... it seems

I received this recycled email from a friend of mine in California which compares various aspects of the "RED" and "BLUE" States.

It occurred to me that had President Lincoln with the help of most of my grandfathers, lost the Civil War and we had become two separate nations, i.e.:  The Confederate States of America, and The United States of America, we wouldn't be having the political problems we are facing today.

The winning of that war has perpetuated the clash between the two very different cultures which through necessity established our nation -- those fundamentalist Anglican Puritans in Massachusetts now controlled by the 1st Amendment in our Constitution, and the  class conscious English manor-driven elite who settled in the Virginia colony giving rise to plantations and slavery.

Unfortunately, there is no way we could have established our independence from England in 1776 as divided colonies. The Civil War in 1861 should have resulted in the separation of those cultures rather than the mass killing of many thousands of Americans on both sides. However, that is, as they say, "Water over the damn"!

Those of us who share "Blue" politics will enjoy reading the following with a little tongue-cheek tossed in for spice:

Dear Red States:

We're ticked off at your Neanderthal attitudes and politics, and we decided we're leaving.

We in New York intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and the rest of the Northeast.

We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation and especially to the people of the new country of The Enlightened States of America (E.S.A).

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches.

We get Andrew Cuomo and Elizabeth Warren. You get Bobby Jindal and Todd Akin.

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand.

 We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

 We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.

 We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs.

 You get Alabama.

 We get two-thirds of the tax revenue. You get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families.

With the Blue States in hand we will have firm control of 80% of the country's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation's fresh fruit, 95% of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90% of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the US low sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven  Sister schools plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

 With the Red States you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans and their projected health care costs, 92% of all US  mosquitoes [?], nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes [?],  99%  of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush  Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of 
Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory,  53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy bastards  believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

 We're taking the good weed too. You can have that crap they grow in Mexico.

 Sincerely,

Citizen of the Enlightened States of America