Someone might want to keep this handy in Montgomery

[troublemaker]

AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of Alabama and the other States united under the compact styled "The Constitution of the United States of America"

Whereas, the election of John Forbes Kerry and Wesley Kanne Clark to the offices of president and vice-president of the United States of America, by a sectional party, avowedly hostile to the domestic institutions and to the peace and security of the people of the State of Alabama, preceded by many and dangerous infractions of the constitution of the United States by many of the States and people of the Northern section, is a political wrong of so insulting and menacing a character as to justify the people of the State of Alabama in the adoption of prompt and decided measures for their future peace and security, therefore: Be it declared and ordained by the people of the State of Alabama, in Convention assembled, That the State of Alabama now withdraws, and is hereby withdrawn from the Union known as "the United States of America," Done by the people of the State of Alabama, in Convention assembled, at Montgomery, on this, the eleventh day of January, A.D. 2005.
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Okay, I was born in Alabama and this isn't an assault on all southerners... I just think it's interesting that the only reason for Alabama's secession specifically cited in their 1861 Ordinance of Secession was "the election of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin to the offices of president and vice-president." How's that for polarization? (I'm going to start referring to Bush's actions as "political wrongs of insulting and menacing character.")

I don't know if my unlovely native state will take a Kerry Presidency any better, but I hope we'll have the chance to find out.

The equivalent documents of all 13 Confederate States can be found here: (Interesting that Texas cites poor Federal border security in their version.)

http://www.dixienet.org/csa-docs/ordinanc.html

PS How many die-hard Clark supporters knew his middle name? (I didn't until I looked it up. It's connected somehow to his Jewish heritage... he's a Southern Baptist Catholic Jew. He belongs in politics!)