as if things weren't bad enough, russian professor predicts end of US

Apparently by 2010 the US will no longer be the US as we know it.

Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces -- with Alaska reverting to Russian control.

The full article, found on WSJ online, can be read here.

This map may be my favorite bit:



*makes plans to move to Europe, by which I mean the Northest US* :|