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Chuck Thompson has written a remarkable new book, “Better Off without ‘Em: A Northern White Manifesto for Southern Separation Racial Segregation.” As you can see, I’ve taken the liberty of diversifying the title for your amusement.

Here’s a synopsis of the book (suitably diversified, of course):

Lets talk about secession segregation.

Not exactly the most suitable cocktail party conversation starter anywhere in the country, but take that notion deep into the heart of Dixie Detroit and you might find yourself running from the possum-hunting conservatives crack-smoking criminals, trailer-park lifers Thug 4 Life’rs, and prayer warriors welfare queens Chuck Thompson encountered during the two years he spent traveling the American South black America asking the question: Would we be better off without em?

The result is a heavily researched, serious inquiry into national divides which is unabashedly controversial, often uproarious, and always thought-provoking. From a church service in Mobile, Alabama Chicago, Illinois, where the gospel entertainer the Reverend Jeremiah Wright announces “Islam is upon us!” “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color!” to a store selling Ku Klux Klan “Civil Rights” movement memorabilia on a quaint little street in South Carolina any American city — Thompson lifts the green velvet drapes on a South race that would seem to belong more to the time of Rhett and Scarlett the Stone Age (or, if we’re being extremely generous: the time of Nat Turner and John Brown) than the dawn of the twenty-first century.

By crunching numbers, interviewing experts, and roaming the not-so-former Confederacy growing ghetto, Thompson — an openly disgruntled liberal white man from the Northwest a once-civilized society — makes a compelling case for southern secession voluntary segregation. What would the new nations look like if Virginia governor Bob McDonnell white-hating, race-baiting demagogue Al Sharpton was elected as the first President Tribal Chieftain of the Confederate States of America United States of Black America? If a southern black electorate was left to fend for itself while the North white America did damage control on an auto industry a civilization decimated by cut-rate, union-defying southern voters low-IQ, tribalist black voters for the last hundred years? If the BCS championship football game were replaced by a North vs. South Whites vs. Blacks Coca Cola/ Starbucks Blood Bowl™? If Florida Hispanics and Jews went to the South blacks and Texas Asians to the North whites in the most complex land-and-population grab in American history since the Treaty of Versailles?

“Better Off without Em” is a deliberately provocative book whose insight, humor, fierce and fearless politics race realism, and sheer nerve will spark a national debate that is perhaps long overdue long, long, long, long, long overdue.