I would very much like to be wrong on this.
I hope you are wrong too. However, the Civil War of the future will not be regional, but will be a battle of urban values vs. rural values all over most of the country. Urban has the numbers but Rural has the guns. The suburbs will lean either way depending upon the specific area (i.e. demographics and political persuasion). If the benevolent dictatorship of the left wins, rural areas will be made similar to the “savage reservations” imagined by Aldous Huxley in “A Brave New World.” In fact, many in our cities think of Americans in Flyover Country as nothing more than backward savages.
The individualism and freedom of the rural Right will not be tolerated.
My father used to tell us how, during WWII, he heard some noise and saw the light from a fire near our farm one night and went out to see what was going on. What he found was Army men on “maneuvers” so he approached the group to see what he could find out and his youngest brother was one of the privates there. He sat around the campfire with his brother and the others for some time and then went home to tell my mother what he had learned. I hope this is all just the same sort of training but I don’t blame you for being concerned.