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The divide is not state-by-state as it was in 1860. The divide is county by county, and basically high-density population versus low-density population.

It's now worse than that. It's down to house by house.

The recent Senate race in Texas proved that to me. Everywhere I went in Dallas County, there were Beto signs intermingled with Cruz signs. I'm talking in the yards of individual residences on the same block.

My town is ostensibly red, but it was the same thing here.

When the SHTF, there's going to be a major sort-out, up close and personal.

It's down to house by house.

The nonstop lies of the Democrat media have demonized Republicans so badly that there are people who believe the lies . . . sort of. They are the low-information voters who vote Democrat and will even put up a sign, but they don't really look into the details enough to form a live-or-die position. And in a civil war, they would be forced to live or die. Instead of doing that, some of them will just go along with 'the rest of the block' whichever way that goes. And I believe the preponderance will fall along the inner-city versus non-city lines.

The other factor is whether any individual - regardless of "theoretical" political position - would side with a rebellion against central authority or side with that central authority. One of those in our, predominantly conservative, neighborhood who had a Beto sign is a policeman. Would he feel honor-bound to serve a disarmament notice on his neighbor? Probably. And that's where a house-by-house battle might start. Or at least, police (central authority) versus an individual house . . . by house . . . by house.

The biggest danger, from an individual rights perspective, is that the central government will 'divide and conquer' by suppressing individual homes, one at a time. Would you die to defend your neighbor? Do you even know his/her name? In our society, local neighborhoods are almost unimportant next to work or other social systems.

The good news, such as it is, is that I think that sort of decision will be sorted out long before it gets to my mostly-conservative neighborhood. The government will either have 'won' by demonstrating over and over again that they can trample on individual rights and will kill those who resist (one at a time, or house-by-house), or others will have resisted with sufficient force that the invalidity of disarmament orders and other violations of individual rights will have become apparent.

And that is something that might happen state by state. The Northeast states are already gone. After the Boston Marathon bombing, the police (in armored cars, with automatic weapons) went house to house and seized all firearms (or anything else they wanted) and the people just let them. That could happen now in Texas, in Austin or in the inner cities of Houston or Dallas. But I don't think it would work in my neighborhood. I hope not, anyway.

I'm old enough that I'm not as afraid of losing my life as I once was, and I've determined in my own mind not to comply with an illegal disarmament order. If they came to my house first, I'd be one of the ones that died for the principle. But I don't expect them to come to my house first.