Mr. Lincoln may not agree but it seems to me that the USA is at a crisis point and just perhaps, it is time to think of letting go. This time it would not be the North versus the South but the hate-filled, fear-mongering, self-blinded elements of this country versus those who have hope and compassion, those who want to see the country's inhabitants at peace, who look forward to citizenry voting for change and progress, those who want the environment restored to sustainability with proper safeguards put into place and maintained, the same ones who want the gun bloc, the insurance industry, the shoot-and-bomb-entire-regions to the ground war mongers and those who espouse violent means to their desired aims brought into the light, exposed for what they are, and relegated to their proper place, a place that seems to be flying a different banner and in a whole other country.

Obviously there will be a huge shift in the populace as people settle in where they are comfortable. I like the American South but I will live in the North because the rational country needs to have the North as its home- after all, that is where the Statue of Liberty is, whose inscription says and I quote:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"