Talk:Riograndense Republic/"Modern Separatist Movement"

The following is the section I removed from the article, per Articles for deletion/Riograndense Republic discussion:

Modern separatist movement
In 1992 the Pampa Independence Movement, led at that time by Irton Marx, re-proclaimed independence under the symbolic name of Federal Republic of Pampa, or Gaucho Pampas (República Federal do Pampa in Portuguese). The Republic covers only the State of the Rio Grande do Sul, the same original territory of the Rio-Grandense Republic, but some people would like include also the other Southern Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Paraná. A primary motivation for the proposal is that the population of these three states, unlike the population of the other states of Brazil, is almost entirely Caucasian. They also argue that since their economic productivity is greater on a per capita basis than the rest of Brazil, they should be independent so that their revenues don't have to go so support the rest of Brazil. A few also include the State of São Paulo. The official language would remain the Portuguese; some say also that the German and Italian languages would be made co-equal, but this was never of the Movement proposal.

The Pampa Independence Movement started to campaign for a public vote on the secession of the Rio Grande do Sul, and over 1 million signatures were collected. The movement is inspired by the Farroupilha Revolution, started on 20th of September of 1835 with a ten years war against Brazil.

A picture of a proposed flag for the proposed Republic of the Gaucho Pampas, or Pampas Republic, which would include the three southernmost states of Brazil, is linked to below. == Notes & References ==