A Journey Through a Fractured America: Reflections on Secession and Disunion
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Stephanie Wambugu
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A reflective, first-person essay exploring the author's growing sense that American secession is not only possible but inevitable. Traveling across the country, the narrator observes vast regional differences in accents, languages, climate, food, and racial demographics, and a profound lack of national consensus. The piece uses the journey as a lens to examine the fragility and incoherence of the American Union, suggesting that the country's internal divisions may be too deep to sustain a unified nation.
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· 3 pulledOnce we had ventured far enough into America to no longer be anywhere near the mood-lit wine bars and overrun coffee shops of North Brooklyn, where I live, secession began to strike me as not only possible but inevitable.
From state to state, there is such variation in accents, languages spoken, climate, culinary traditions, and racial demographics, and such a complete lack of consensus when it co
This is America, I thought, it isn't right to deny an adult—a paying customer—a beer.
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