Nobody's donned a grey tunic or run the Stars and Bars up the county courthouse flagpole, but the good people of Minnesota's tiny Northwest Angle have voted to be allowed to secede from the union and become a part of Canada. The reason: New Canadian fishing regulations now make it more desirable to be Canadian than American in an area whose economy is almost totally dependent upon resort fishing. If they go, they apparently won't be missed. "Let 'em," one state legislator said. "I don't even like fish."
Fishing for Freedom
Nobody's donned a grey tunic or run the Stars and Bars up the county courthouse flagpole, but the good people of Minnesota's tiny Northwest Angle have voted to be allowed to secede from the union and become a part of Canada. The reason: New Canadian fishing regulations now make it more desirable to be Canadian than American in an area whose economy is almost totally dependent upon resort fishing. If they go, they apparently won't be missed. "Let 'em," one state legislator said. "I don't even like fish."
