November 24, 2016, NY Times
by Linda Greenhouse
Half slave and half free. The last time the United States split into two countries, it didn’t work out at all well.
If that sounds like a hyperbolic reaction to the yawning red state, blue state divide, so be it. It’s prompted by the picture that President-elect Donald J. Trump painted the other day of what would happen if he achieved his goal of appointing enough Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Source: NY Times