Former Member of Reagan White House Wants a New Southern Secession

Douglas MacKinnon, a former aide during the days of the Ronald Reagan White House, wants three Southern states to once again secede from the Union and form it's own nation. While clarifying that this was all academic, which is to say, merely in theory, MacKinnon suggested that it would be better if Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina broke off from the country and formed a new nation.

What would the new nation be called? "Reagan."

While promoting his new book The Secessionist States of America: The Blueprint for Creating a Traditional Values Country … Now, MacKinnon is suggesting that history repeat once again, and that South Carolina, one of the states that MacKinnon singled out, once again lead the South in a new wave of secession.

MacKinnon also touched upon the Civil War, claiming that the Southern state all seceded peacefully and entirely legally, and that President Lincoln recognized that the United States could not get by without the economic might of the South. He suggested that Northern efforts to preserve the Union were "illegal."

Among the values that MacKinnon places high on the list as priorities for this new nation would be gay marriage.

It kind of reminds me of what I once heard Barry Goldwater famously said that helped to cost him any chance of winning the 1964 presidential election:

"Sometimes I think this country would be better off if we could just saw off the eastern seaboard and let it float out to sea."

I know that the three states that MacKinnon was talking about are on the eastern seaboard, but the point is about parts of the nation simply being separated from the rest.

Lyndon Johnson used that quote by Goldwater against him very effectively. It is possible that this quote might have cost Goldwater the election, although that is debatable. I was not yet born, so I am probably not in the best position to say for sure.

But I do suspect that if somebody from Obama's administration suggested such a thing about northeastern states, it would surely be seen as treason, and perhaps even, arguably, as grounds to impeach the president. Obama is not my favorite president, as I have suggested before. But there is a certain double standard about that kind of thing, it seems to me.

Then again, maybe I am not giving this a chance. Perhaps there is someone out there who thinks that this would be a good idea? Maybe it would give each region what they want politically, and effectively end the gridlock in Washington (for now, anyway).

In any case, here is the link to the article, which includes some sound clips from the interview with MacKinnon:



Reagan Aide Wants The South To Secede And Form Anti-Gay 'Reagan' Nation

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/reagan-aide-calls-for-southern-secession