... where I recently saw a t-shirt that shows a silhouette of the state and next to it the following words
US OUT OF VERMONT.

Did you see that thing on the Internet about “Vermontifornia”? If not I’ll try and find it and send a link or post it here. Funny but edgy, and when you read the red state vs blue state statistics it’s… painful, sobering.

Obviously this made the rounds just after the last presidential election:

Vermontifornia*

Dear President Bush:

Congratulations on your victory over all us non-evangelicals. Actually,
we’re a bit ticked off here in California, so we’re leaving you.
California will now be its own country. And we’re taking all the Blue States
with us. In case you are not aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,
Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, all of the North East States, and the urban half of Ohio.

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

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 OpryLand.

We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard. 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 the Christian
Coalition’s, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single
moms.

Please be aware that the country of Vermontifornia will be pro-choice,
pro-gay marriage, and anti-war.

Speaking of war, we’re going to need all Blue States citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight in
Falujah, just ask your evangelical voters. They have tons of kids
they’re willing to send to their deaths for absolutely no purpose and they
don’t care if you don’t show pictures of their children’s caskets coming
home.

We wish you all the best in the next four years and we hope, really hope you
find those missing weapons of mass destruction. Seriously. Soon.

With the Blue States in hand we will have firm control of 80 percent of the
country’s fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92
percent of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95 percent of America’s quality wines
(you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90 percent of all cheese, 90
percent of the high tech industry, most of the US low sulfur coal, all
living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools
plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

But, in the highly unlikely event the Vermontifornia should ever require the
services of institutionalized torturers, we will know who to come to.

With 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 US
mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the
hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of
all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the
University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite. Thank you.

Since we get New York, you’ll have to come up with your own late night TV
shows because we get MTV, Letterman, the Daily Show, and Conan O’Brien. You
get… well, why don’t you ask your people at Fox News to come up with
something entertaining?

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

Those of us so inclined (by no means all of us) are taking the good pot too. You can, if you wish, have that dirt
weed they grow in Mexico.

Sincerely,

The People of Vermontifornia