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Go to South Carolina, Ye Christian
USA Today is reporting on a new movement of Christians to go to South Carolina, where they believe they can take over the government.
The story, on Christian Exodus believes that the state is ripe for takeover and is encouraging people to move from across the country to install right-wing conservative views. So says founder Cory Burnell.
Burnell has picked six counties as the first targets for local action. And in the ones where he once estimated it would take 500 emigrants to turn the tide, he now says it will take 100.
By 2008, he hopes to see a strong presence of Christian Exodus-backed candidates in all six counties, and he anticipates an "overwhelmingly impact" statewide elections in 2014.
The idea isn't as far-fetched as it may sound, said Laura Olson, a political science professor at Clemson University who studies religion's influence on politics.
"In many states I would say no chance, but in a state like South Carolina ... where lots of people are on that sort of boat to begin with, it's the sort of thing that's not unfathomable," she said.
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So are we seeing theocracy is in action ... one state at a time? Will we have a divided Union but, this time, based strictly on separation of church and state?
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