Breaking up the Union, part 2

Before I comment on three “weird states,” I want to double back and put up the second half of my chapter on the possible future breakup of the United States, whose first half is here. This will inform why I would be leery of advising anyone to move to those states. I also wish to post a digression into my views of the recent election. Suffice it to say for now that I think, for the most part, that its results were compatible with the possibility of the future regional divisions I have envisioned as possible. I am also inclined to think that we may have more than two years before a full-scale civil war breaks out ... but, contrarily, that a breakup may well be the best outcome many of us can hope for.

 

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