Note:  This is not a politically correct post.

My cousin in AZ forwarded this email to me earlier and I got a good laugh out of it.  I don't know if it's all factual so let me state that as a caveat upfront.  It's good for a laugh though.

Dear Red States:

If you manage to steal this election too, we've decided  we're leaving.

We intend to form our own country, and we're taking  the other Blue States with us. In case you  aren't aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon,Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast.

We believe this split will be beneficial  to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New  California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.  We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get  Dollywood.

We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.

We get 85% of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.

We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22% lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from  Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of the country's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and Lettuce, 92% of the nation's fresh fruit, 95% of America's quality wines, 90%  of all cheese, 90% of the high tech industry, 95% of the corn and soybeans (thanks Iowa!), most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all of our remaining living redwoods, sequoias and condors,all the Ivy League and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92% of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38% of  those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution  is only a theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you  crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we so called lefties.

Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Peace!  --Blue States

I was sold on the wines!