Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: eskimospy
Originally posted by: Specop 007
I really, truly believe its time for the country to split. Theres just too many differences that run too deeply in my opinion.
You do realize that the conservative parts of this country would be left in a world of hurt without the blue states, right? Do you realize what percentage of our GDP is concentrated in the liberal areas?
Amazing, simply amazing.
You have no idea how much manufacturing exists in the SE (everything from hi-tech to autos etc).
Then, the
real financial center is in Charlotte (unbeknownst to most people).
Then there's all the agri-business and animal husbandry.
You could split the parts with hardly any inconvenience, each part would still trade with the other, captial would still flow etc.
As far as GDP per state, I'd like to see that. I'm pretty sure the government doesn't have that data. Tax returns only have one address on them - that being the location of the admin HQ (usually); that in no way represents where the GDP is produced. H3ll, even the GDP from overseas operation is lumped in together with that from within the states.
I've also filled out Dept of Commerce forms, they don't ask for that kind of detailed data either. Again, they just show the one address and presumably cannot attribute the data beyond that.
Fern