An email forwarded to me. I LOL'd.

Dear Red States

Dear Red States,

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 Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, New York, and all of the Northeastern states. After this
election, we'll be adding Colorado and New Mexico. We believe this split will be beneficial to the
nation, especially to the people of our new country - Nuevo California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states; we get stem cell research, the
best beaches, and the best ski resorts. We get Elliot Spitzer; you get Ken Lay. We get the Statue of
Liberty; you get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft; you get WorldCom. We get Stanford, Harvard,
Princeton, Yale, Cal Tech, MIT and Columbia; you get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent 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 percent lower than that of the Christian Coalition, we get a
bunch of happy families and you get a bunch of under-educated single moms. Please be aware that
Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we'll need all of our citizens back from Iraq
at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They apparently have kids they're
willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't mind if you don't televise their
kid's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq and hope that those Weapons of Mass
Destruction turn up for you, but we're not willing to spend any more of our money in Bush's
Quagmire.

With the Blue States, we will control 80 percent of the country's fresh water, 90 percent of
pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 97 percent of America's quality wines
(you can serve French wines at your state dinners), 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high
tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, and all
the Ivy League and Seven Sister schools. We also get New England, the Great Lakes and Yosemite,
thank you very much.

In the Red States, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans and their projected
health care costs, 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, 100 percent of tornadoes, 94 percent of
hurricanes, 99 percent of Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush
Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, and Clemson. Additionally, in the Red States, 38 percent actually
believe Jonah was swallowed by a whale; 62 percent believe life is sacred unless it involves the
death penalty or semi automatic gun ownership; 44 percent claim that evolution is only a theory; 53
percent insist that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11; and 61 percent of you crazy bastards
believe you have higher moral standards than those of us on the left.

By the way, we're taking all the good pot, too. You get that dirt weed from Mexico and Kansas
ditches.

Peace out,
The Blue States