from BBC Online's Have Your Say: >>>>>>>>> Perhaps with a country so divided, it is time for it to be split into 3. I = lived in the US for 6 years and loved it but many friends on the East and W= est coasts were tired of being dominated by the middle of the country. West= Coast friends used to laughingly talk about 'Pacifica', a nation of Califo= rnia, Oregon, Washington State and British Columbia. They aren't laughing n= ow, and neither is the rest of the world.=0BFleecy Moss, St Bees >>>>>>> Wednesday, November 3, 2004, 7:22:01 AM, Carol Kirschenbaum wrote: CK> It's over...There'll be little brushfires, >> challenges, lawsuits, but they have John Ashcroft to handle those. CK> ck: And what have we learned today, children? It is clear that the Unit= ed CK> States consists of two separate mentalities, only one of which will be CK> substantially represented in Congress and in the executive branch. Is t= his CK> fair. Hell no. Election reform is mandatory, for one. This winner-takes= -all CK> electoral college has to go. If it weren't for the obvious geographical CK> inconvenience, I'd be tempted to predict another civil war. Nah... CK> Carol --=20 Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK =20 mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html