Whereas the US is split by a vast red/blue cultural divide:
Whereas that divide has reduced the political process in the US to one of gridlock and inability to govern:
Whereas decades of gerrymandering voting districts make the likelihood of a democratic solution minimal:
It is requested:
The US government apologize for forcing the Confederacy to be a part of the United States after the Civil War.
Allow all states which so choose to withdraw from the United States and form their own country or countries.