Govs screw up Shire Northwest

[KBCraig]

The folks of Cascadia just want to visit their neighbors, but gov.us and gov.ca have screwed it all up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/world/americas/27cascadia.html

"The place is a whole," said David McCloskey, a retired professor of sociology at Seattle University and one of Cascadia's earliest advocates, "but it's chopped up."

New factionalism has emerged. The northern constituency has startled some residents by draping itself in a foreign flag, alternately swaggering and fretting about "owning the podium" on behalf of something called Canada. Meanwhile, residents in the southern reaches now need passports just to get around. And when many want to catch the Games on television, the broadcasts are tape-delayed — even though the events are being played here in the homeland.