It's not accurate to say that states are filing petitions to secede. They aren't.
It's not like the governors and legislatures of the states in question are demanding independence, backed up by an angry, united population and Constitutional scholars. (In fact, even Rick Perry has scoffed at the Texas petition.)
No, these petitions are entirely the work of Americans who are so proud of their country that they don't think it can (or should) survive a democratically elected black president. And because they need only 25,000 signatures to merit a response from the administration, they think it's a big deal when one of those petitions meets that threshold.
But 25,000 is barely one-fifth of the population in my hometown. I'm sure I could go to a Ragin' Cajuns football game and get that many signatures to secede.
Though 25,000 is quite an effort just to get the White House to laugh at you. Chris Rock managed that despite being 24,999 fewer people.
Yeah, I think the Union will be fine.
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