Is my state going to continue to have democratic elections, and will it institute universal healthcare? If so, viva le Buckeye State. Otherwise, I’m making tracks to Indiana.
A few years ago, hardcore conservative and first-class idiot Jon Christensen was in serious danger of being elected governor of my state. It was bad enough having that douche as my congressman, but I was very prepared to move if he’d been elected governor. I imagine I’d be just as prepared to move if Nebraska seceded.
This is mitigated a bit by my living only ten miles or so from the border, though. I’ll admit that it would take a bit more thought if I lived in the center of whatever state.
Back when I lived in CA, I used to wish my state would secede.
Now that I live in VA, there’s no way I would stay if it seceded. I’d try to move back to the West coast.
I would hate to give up my job, but there is just no WAY that I’m staying in Mississippi under those circumstances. I’d relocate to just about any part of the US where I could find a tenure-track job, or failing that, probably back to the DC area where my parents live and adjunct work is plentiful.
Ta-ta, South Carolina. I hardly knew ye. Wouldn’t lose a tear over it either.
First I would think my state was totally fucking retarded (NY) and wonder what the hell it was smoking and could I have some.
Then…it’s tough to say. I’d probably stay here because my SO probably would. On my own, I think I would have moved out of NY State already and gotten a fresh start somewhere else, so if I was on my own I’d probably move.
I live in Georgia and work for the government. Really the only thing keeping me here at this point is gainful employment/laziness anyway, so I’d take it as a nice opportunity to either move to Portland OR, NOLA, or NYC. I’d honestly rather be a bum for a while in a new American city than live in whatever crazy theocracy Georgia would become.
In Maryland now. As for what’s preventing me - a few things, like my wife liking the US, and small kids. In the future, the kids will not be so small, and if things deteriorate to the point of states seceding, these objections to moving will disappear.
One major factor in my decision would be whether I would still be able to collect my Federal pension while living in the nation of North Carolina. I’d really prefer not to move, as I’m pretty satisfied with my life here. This, of course, also assumes that wouldn’t be any significant changes in my cost of living because of the secession.
I’d move from Portland to Seattle.
I don’t like Florida anyway and its economy, moreso than other states, depends on being in the US – tourism would be more difficult, much of the heavy industry and tech is geared toward the Federal govt, and of course all the retirees depend on SS and Medicare. The only thing we’d still have going is a well-rounded abundance of agriculture.
If California seceded I’d go with it.
I’m currently living in Colorado and I’m not certain. It’s a nice place and there is enough stuff here between tourism and agriculture that it might have a chance of success. I think it would depend on the politics of why Colorado was leaving.
I work in New Mexico if they left I’d laugh at them from the US and then start working on a new border fence.
I’d stay in Massachusetts, glad to finally be rid of all this red-state nonsense.
I’ve seen what can happen to foreign civilians in countries that get on the wrong side of the US. I don’t want to be that close to the US in such a volatile situation, but not a part of it. It’d end up like Peter Griffin’s Petopia.
Plus I live pretty close to my state line and a bunch of my family, friends, and my childhood hometown are on the other side of it. If I can’t travel freely then I have to GTFO.
I’d leave Indiana in a heartbeat. I like the place well enough, and I’m certainly appreciative of the public university systems here, but I don’t have any particular loyalty to the place. There’s no way the state could do well on its own-- even disregarding its essentially landlocked status-- as a lot of the businesses and industries that currently do well here would find their income dropping precipitously (or they’d quickly shift their physical locations across the border). I also think that academia and industry in the remaining 49 would quickly move to “drain” brainpower in the state at bargain prices. I’d hate to see the economic fallout to Indiana; lost business, lost brainpower, lost tax revenue.
Me, I’d take advantage of the brain drain and jump ship to another university (hell, planning on that anyway).
Stick my boot up Rick Perry’s ass, then move to our place in Colorado.
I’d stay in my state as a Unionist supporter.
I live in Arkansas. I would get the hell out of here if we seceded because we are landlocked and I don’t love the state enough to stay here forever. I would probably move to Texas to be closer to the rest of my family and visit the few who would stay here.
I, and most of Travis County I think, would pull up stakes and head for saner parts.
I like the US a whole lot better than I like Arizona. I’ve daydreamed for years about moving to a different part of the country, and haven’t done so mainly due to the economy. But I strongly doubt I’d agree with whatever reason Arizona might have for secession (“We’re tired of the Feds telling us how to run our border!”), and I’d rather remain a US citizen. That would give me the necessary incentive to get the hell out.
I’d like to think there would be also be an exodus INTO Arizona or whatever state seceded. It would be pretty diluted over the US, but it would make it that much easier to find a job elsewhere as people pull up roots and come to take my old job. (Of course, given my company’s clientele and the disposition of its upper management, I think the whole thing would end up relocating out of Arizona anyway.)