Dismantling-the-Union thought experiment question for American citizens: If the US broke up into 50 independent nation-states based on current states, and you were forced to pick citizenship in one... Which one would you pick? And which state do you live in now?
under what terms is the union dissolved? peacefully, cold-war, shooting war, what?
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Let’s say a peaceful legislative dismantlement
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In that scenario I think Texas becomes a global petro-state super power and we all have to live in it's shadow. I'd try to find the weirdest, most cosmopolitan corner of Texas I could. NYC currently.
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Disagree re: Texas. The only truly self sufficient and democratic Petro-State today is Norway. My guess is that Texas would slide deep into authoritarianism due to inequality within a generation. Massive brain drain to more liberal states.
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are you suggesting that simply being a petrostate leads to authoritarianism? I can think of very good historical and geopolitical reasons why so many petrostates are tyrannical shitholes.
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