Breaking up is hard to do

The topic of secession continues to pop up. From where I'm sitting, it seems like a lot of people are pissed off and have lost their ability to think things through.

Rather than secession, my preference would be an exile system. We need to figure out a way to isolate the people who support the teabag and/or birther movements, who think the GOP is too liberal, or who voted for W in 2000 and 2004 and wished he was running in 2008. If we could get at least 90 percent of that bunch consolidated in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, we could declare them to be in exile. A lot of the target population live there already, which simplifies the process.

Those three states would become the modern equivalent of leper colonies. With luck, the ten percent who remained behind would STFU and be absorbed into the civilized population. In any event, their numbers would be insignificant and they could no longer expect the media to publicize their griping and complaining as if it was somehow important news. Any time they started whining about their problems, they'd be reminded that residents of the colonies were exempt from taxes and unfair regulation by the federal government, and that they might be happier living among their own kind. This would hopefully encourage migration.