Here we are in 2008 and a Republican in Georgia wants to redraw the state lines to fix a problem from 1818:

Nearly two centuries after a flawed survey placed Georgia’s northern border just short of the Tennessee River, some legislators are thirsting to set the record straight.

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“It’s never too late to right a wrong,” said Georgia state Sen. David Shafer (R), whose bill would create a boundary-line commission that aims to resolve the dispute.

The reaction of Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D): “This is a joke, right?”

I hope this is a joke also. To sit there and expect some big fight over the border, and take a chance at tearing apart some of our nation’s cities is a joke. Of course this is a microcosm of a look into what the future will hold, with diminishing water supplies. If we are going to have a battle between two states over this, imagine the battle between countries when they are running out of water.