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I repeat if FedGov falls apart state lines will mean everything. The Governors and legislatures don’t go away. There is still law and order.

You’re still fighting the LAST Civil War, FRiend.
As I said, WV has a RAT gov. but went more than 65% Trump. Which side do you think WV will be on?

There will be a TOTAL breakdown of “law and order” as you put it. CWII will be about who gets to run what’s left after the shooting stops.

I believe that with the use of information technology in rapid mobility it will take a while before state lines mean much. When a civil war starts there will be a lot of low-level gorilla attacks against targets on both sides regardless of where they live, what they do,and how much money they have. People will start self-segrgatiing and neighborhoods and towns will drive out those they feel do not belong.

We live in a world where information and millions of people can be shared effortlessly. Motivated groups and individuals will be able to find out everything they need to know from voter rolls, government databases, private marketing databases, etc. There are many social analytical software tools that can be used to analyze phone records and emails, perform sentiment analysis that will give very clear information on targets. Imagine all of the corporate world's marketing tools turned to violence ends.

Here is a graph analysis of the Star Wars movie characters:

As you can see from the graph above, Obi-Wan the old, desert-rat, hermit "knows too much!"

I used Star Wars to lighten the mood of an otherwise Orwellian topic. For background on this type of analysis here is the link the the Star Wars Social Network http://evelinag.com/blog/2015/12-15-star-wars-social-network/

With this type of analytical tool the nodes of the major players can be sized, colored, and arranged according to their centrality, number of connections to other actors/nodes that that you're interested in. With this type of tool information starts popping out and people of influence or of interest become visible. Imagine this being applied to people in your neighborhood or City based on information regarding who they call, email, text, write checks to, what restaurants they eat at, what clubs/associations they belong too.

These tools can and will be used in the event of the Civil War in America. While we have a lot of tree hugging savages, Americans of all political beliefs are very techno-savvy. This may be turn out to be the first information-driven Civil War.