Divided states of America. Is it time to create two countries?

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Gerund: Sep 12, 2007; He push a man

Split at the Continental Divide and literally
who cares if its 'even' or 'fair' or 'goes through former US state blundaries'.

We all only need to care about water rights anyway.

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Gerund: Sep 12, 2007; He push a man

Cobalt-60 posted:

That's one scenario I could see; a competent autocrat takes charge. As violence builds up in an increasingly polarized and policed country, local power becomes more important. Company towns make a re-emergence, this time with PMCs. The federal government manages commerce to the extent necessary for ~~spice~~ commerce to flow; outside those bounds, it's whatever you can get away with. You wind up with something like Ulster; tribal enclaves devoted to hating each other, with enough military presence to keep outright war from breaking out.

With the decentralization of warfare, conflicts would be small, asymmetrical, and often via proxy. Drone warfare, cyber attacks, sabotage. And lots of petty stuff. (I'm imagining the online multiplayer games of this future; reds vs. blues everywhere. And you thought Horde v. Alliance was bad.)

Or maybe this is all bullshit. What's the most boring, mundane, banal way that the country's divisions would fall out/be handled?

Split at the continental divide so that you don't have a water war in the next twenty years, and let the east coast knife fight about politics at what is effectively an even battle between Yankees and Confederates.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2020 16:58

Gerund: Sep 12, 2007; He push a man

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

The west's chuds might be less numerous but if they wanted to start poo poo the geographical circumstances are going to make them far more effective at sabotaging their enemies, and harder to catch. Lol when the State of Jefferson Free Army starts loving with the central valley's water supply and you all come crawling back to Papa East.

*ahem* nah, them lil shits ain't nothing.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

You forgot Monaco and the Vatican.

This is under the Red Vs. Blue scenario. It could still work in a sorta-amicable divorce scenario.

amicable divorce with a clean border is the only way to balkanize the country, and even then you're still in a Partition of India scenario where people go door-to-door to cleanse their neighborhood of people who "don't belong".

# ¿ Nov 11, 2020 18:00

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