Threats of Secession!

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Threats of Secession!

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Socorro Wants to Secede . . .
SOCORRO — Because this community
has never been given recognition
to which it feels it is entitled in
connection with the original A-Bomb
blast, community leaders have voted
to set up the Socorro Free State, an
independent republic, and are asking
that it be recognized as such by the
United States and the United Nations.
Although the first A-Bomb test took
place only 30 miles from Socorro, all
the news of the event was date-lined
at Alamogordo which was 70 miles
away. Socorro has erected a monument
dedicated to the bomb blast. The
chamber of commerce has received a
letter from Tom Peesaw, secretary of
the Pan-American League of Indian
Tribes, stating that since his tribe does
not like the way the United States is
being run, the Indians want to buy
land and move to the new "Free
State."—Socorro Chieftain.
Desert Magazine, July 1953, Page 34
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Re: Threats of Secession!

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darn, i thought this was recent. the right to secede should be given to each state, but wait, i think we already had this discussion a few years ago.

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That would not be a pretty picture. If the states had the right to secede, the U.S. would be Balkanized in no time and hundreds of years of progress would be for naught as we became a bunch of little republics all bickering and fighting each other. I am an American and I will never vote for any state's right to secede.
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