The United States of Nope
Texas wants to leave. Rural Illinois wants a divorce. Oregon keeps eyeing Idaho like it’s checking out someone across the bar. So… what the hell is going on?
This week, Chibbi and Rooster unpack the growing wave of secession movements across the country and ask a bigger question: have we gotten so politically divided that we’d rather redraw the map than learn to live with each other?
Along the way they wander through the history of states breaking apart, why rural communities feel left behind, whether Texas should split into five states, why Brexit keeps coming up, and how culture wars have…
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