Word: secessionism
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Thank you, Michael Grunwald, for offering a succinct and balanced discussion of why we should be wary of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia [March 3]. U.S. recognition of Kosovo's secession broke my heart, not because I am of Serbian ancestry...
The Green Mountain State was once an independent republic, and it still goes its own way; a 2007 statewide poll found 13% support for secession. Vermont was the only state to support the Anti-Masonic ticket in 1832, the only state except Utah to go for President Taft in 1912...
"The independent streak goes way back, and it's never gone away," says Thomas Naylor, a former Duke economics professor who now leads the state's fledgling secession movement. In that statewide poll, three of every four Vermonters agreed that the United States had lost its moral authority. "That's...
Now Vermont is blue heaven, home of Ben and Jerry and Phish, the first state with civil unions for gays, the last state with a Wal-Mart and the only state that President Bush has somehow neglected to visit. (Naylor likes to say that Bush is the unofficial membership director...
On the Republican side, John McCain seems to be running away with the race, with Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul in a battle for second place. The libertarian-minded Paul has a certain appeal to the leave-me-alone traditions of the Vermont outback - Naylor recalls meeting him at a...