They Used to Call this Sedition

Now it's called progressivism.  A group of several nitwits thinks they want to start a socialist state in Arizona, on the border with Mexico. 

On the patio of a downtown bar here last Wednesday night, a handful of people gathered over pitchers of beer to plot the creation of America's 51st state.

With copies of the Arizona constitution before them, they debated how to turn Pima County—a liberal southern swatch of Arizona that borders Mexico and includes Tucson—into "Baja Arizona." "What's the objective?" one member asked the group, Start Our State. "Becoming our own state and making our own decisions," said organizer Paul Eckerstrom. Baja Arizona (the working title) will almost certainly remain a dream, but it suggests the growing chasm between the state's Republican leaders and its frustrated liberal minority.