Comments on: Disunion Hopes http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:45:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anton Sherwood http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-100228 Anton Sherwood Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:14:52 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-100228 I would hope that most citizens keep an attachment to the wider region’s culture, rather than to the successor state. But that's only a hope ... In the period when Germany was most fragmented, how did the broader concept of Germany (or even of Franconia or Swabia) weigh in the mind of the typical German bourgeois, versus their respective county? I would hope that most citizens keep an attachment to the wider region’s culture, rather than to the successor state. But that’s only a hope …

In the period when Germany was most fragmented, how did the broader concept of Germany (or even of Franconia or Swabia) weigh in the mind of the typical German bourgeois, versus their respective county?

]]> By: . . . muttered the ogre » three extropian items http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-100187 . . . muttered the ogre » three extropian items Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:44:59 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-100187 [...] Mike also has a map showing the potential partition of Ukraine. He wraps up: It’s time to stop thinking of nation states as sacred and inviolable entities that must be held together with violence in opposition to the wishes of inhabitants, [rather than] as service providers that must peacefully change and differentiate to best meet the needs of inhabitants. . . . . So long as freedom to live and work in all parts of the formerly unified state is maintained for all citizens of the smaller states, there need be no negatives for individual citizens, apart from a loss of irrational nationalistic feeling for the unified state, which will eventually transfer to the smaller states in those with the need for such feelings. I’d be happy to see the U.S. split into fifty separate countries under such terms. [...] [...] Mike also has a map showing the potential partition of Ukraine. He wraps up: It’s time to stop thinking of nation states as sacred and inviolable entities that must be held together with violence in opposition to the wishes of inhabitants, [rather than] as service providers that must peacefully change and differentiate to best meet the needs of inhabitants. . . . . So long as freedom to live and work in all parts of the formerly unified state is maintained for all citizens of the smaller states, there need be no negatives for individual citizens, apart from a loss of irrational nationalistic feeling for the unified state, which will eventually transfer to the smaller states in those with the need for such feelings. I’d be happy to see the U.S. split into fifty separate countries under such terms. [...]

]]> By: Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-619 Mike Linksvayer Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:20:55 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-619 The numbers are from the November 21 runoff. The government election site also has numbers from the October 31 first round. Maps for both rounds are now at <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_presidential_election%2C_2004">Wikimedia Commons</a>. The numbers are from the November 21 runoff. The government election site also has numbers from the October 31 first round. Maps for both rounds are now at Wikimedia Commons.

]]> By: Anton Sherwood http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-617 Anton Sherwood Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:33:53 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-617 I assumed the numbers given were from the runoff; are they from the first round? I assumed the numbers given were from the runoff; are they from the first round?

]]> By: Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-374 Mike Linksvayer Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:46:21 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-374 Nevermind, Baker is my typo, should be Brady. Corrected. Nevermind, Baker is my typo, should be Brady. Corrected.

]]> By: Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-373 Mike Linksvayer Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:42:30 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-373 I suspect Yushchenko won a plurality but not a majority in Kirovohrad. The <a href="http://www.cvk.gov.ua/wp301ept001f01=501">Ukrainian government election site</a> has the same numbers. <a href="http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=46555#46555">Mark Brady</a> is apparently the latest addition to arguably the most libertarian econ department in the country. I didn't know that before you asked, but he blogs at <a href="http://hnn.us/blogs/4.html">Liberty & Power</a> with august company... I suspect Yushchenko won a plurality but not a majority in Kirovohrad. The Ukrainian government election site has the same numbers.

Mark Brady is apparently the latest addition to arguably the most libertarian econ department in the country. I didn’t know that before you asked, but he blogs at Liberty & Power with august company…

]]> By: Anton Sherwood http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-372 Anton Sherwood Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:30:05 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/11/29/disunion-hopes/#comment-372 Ukraine was once called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Russia">Little Russia</a>. I wonder why Kirovohrad is painted in the minority color. Or is "47" a typo? Who's Baker? Ukraine was once called Little Russia.

I wonder why Kirovohrad is painted in the minority color. Or is “47″ a typo?

Who’s Baker?

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