Maybe the Cold Civil War will feel enough like a war that we won't need to do any actual shooting.https://twitter.com/DailyMail/status/1054509228969418752 …
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Your "nope" is addressing the current practicality, whereas my tweet was talking about long-term sustainability. To answer your question anyway, I would say the current most likely secession candidate would be a progressive state in California, from ~Oakland on South.
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Even if the political will for that could be mustered which it can't, the U.S. wouldn't let it go and would send troops. Over quick.
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Washington elites might order troops to go. But would the troops, which are mostly working class guys from red states, be willing to kill Americans just to keep California from going its own way?
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Of course they would, are you nuts
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I'm happy as a clam, Sam
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Feh, that's a geography based map. Here's a population based one. Answer: 1. The People's Democratic Coastal Republic (both coasts) 2. Churchlandia 3. United States of Buffalo National Park Rustlandia wd have to choose between the 3. Not sustainable as its own country.pic.twitter.com/ZbGVD9q1tB
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Geography is what's necessary for secession, not population, hence that population map is garbahge. It takes large population centers and turns them into dot clumps that spill over into adjacent regions. Silly sauce. It's land that secedes.
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Yes, of course, but its the people in the land that make it march. You got at least 3 clearish divisions there... What makes it inconceivable, I suspect, is its inconceivableness.
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No, much more than that. The Confederacy could be a viable country. New York City could not. Etc. etc.
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Maine thru DC + Ca thru Washington? Seems viable to me.
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Nah, too many red counties in the middle there.
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Depends on what map you use plotting what kind of data, I guess. I see a few fault lines....pic.twitter.com/IRJF2LoN12
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Yeah, good map showing why secession is impossible.
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Then there's this one, from 538's predictions as to which districts will be going which way... If 15 million people are overwhelmingly blue in SoCal and 500,000 are red from Fresno to Bakersfield, the latter may not matter much. Plenty of Tories in the Colonies during the Revpic.twitter.com/zoqB7xWlGy
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