Christian Exodus - to Greenville
GreenvilleOnline.com reports that there's a movement to move thousands of conservative Christian families to Greenville, South Carolina.Their aim: to tip the political scales, which they see as already weighted heavily to the right, further in that direction.Well thank the lord for that.Secession "is a valid option," said [Frank] Janoski, a "state coordinator" for the organization -- but he hopes it doesn't come to that.
"If it's going to be ugly and bloody, nobody wants that," he said.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 2:40 PM
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Wow! Thanks for the tip Paul. This is what concerns me:
"ChristianExodus.org seeks a return to constitutionally limited government founded upon Christian principles, and has decided that the best strategy for achieving this goal is to reform the local and state governments. To accomplish this reform, we will relocate thousands of Christian constitutionalists to one particular sovereign State (South Carolina) so that our numbers will make an effective difference in electoral politics," the Web site says.
I wish I had knowledge of this last Sunday, when I talked about protecting the separation between Church and State. A few UUs actually believed that the religious right were not interested in doing such things. This would have been good proof to the contrary.
I'll believe it when I see it. I have real doubts that a statistically significant number of Americans, even far-right Christian types, are willing to be so inconvenienced to the degree of uprooting themselves and family to relocate for non-financial reasons. I can't think of a single instance of this strategy even coming close to succeeding in American history.
But, I hope this idea catches on like wildfire. South Carolina is already solidly in the conservative camp, both politically and religiously (I should know, I've just relocated from North Carolina, and have done research in Greenville even). So the only thing that I can see coming from this is that some rightwingers might leave other states, diluting the conservative percentages in their states of origin and thus giving liberals or moderates a chance to seize some power there. If they had any smarts, they'd ignore already-conservative SC and move to Florida instead, to ensure that that evenly-split state continued to swing elections toward the party of their preference.
Secret fantasy: all the conservatives and bible-thumpers do move to South Carolina and succeed at seceeding, leaving America free to pursue the sort of principles and policies that most other developed nations cherish. Maybe I should send ChristianExodus.org a check. . .
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