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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Do you think it is possible that, depending on whatever happens, a collection of Democrats and Republicans could ever negotiate their way into an agreement to split various states into two separate countries one day? If they hate each other so much, and there is so little regard for the operation of the country or the political mechanisms that govern it, maybe the next best solution for Democrats is just to say 'look fine, go have your country over there with all these states and we'll go over here; you can go have your ####ed up dictatorship and we'll continue to have our functional democracy and the American people can decide where they want to live'.
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Because of the way the country is split I don't think this is possible. It would require forced migration of people based on ideology, which is pretty sick when you think about it. The reality is this is a population density and education issue. The red parts of states are sparsely homogenously populated and more rural. The blue sections are more heavily and diversly populated. The blue parts have more exposure to differences in peoples and people are usually more accepting. The red areas are isolated and educated on God and guns, rarely coming in contact with person different from themselves. They are afraid of what they don't know, and based on their education and experiences they don't know a helluva lot. So this is where the battle lines are drawn.
If you actually look at it from that perspective, the United States has been in a second civil war - but a cold war - since the civil rights era rose to prominence. This has been a battle for the hearts and minds of American citizens and we are seeing a protracted engagement over the rights and freedoms of religious white people versus the rights of secularist white people and non-white people. It is a battle of hearts and minds and the right-wing has a decided tactical advantage in technology and strategy, while the liberals have the advantage of numbers and evolution on their side. It has been a cold war waging for decades, but the potential for it turn into a hot war are extremely limited because of lack of clear regional or geographic lines to be drawn.