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That cultural and moral recovery was led by a new country located in the northeast

That stops it right there. The LAST place in the country that one would expect to return to conservative ideals would be the northeast with their nasty tyrannies where the second and fourth amendemnts are no longer in effect. And the people there want it that way. Unfortunately they're too stupid to realize their attitudes and voting patterns are what has screwed up the economy there, so off they go to places like the GA and Fl to ruin them too.

The LAST place in the country that one would expect to return to conservative ideals would be the northeast

Stopped me too...

Seriously. Read the book, even if you don’t agree with all the premises that have been laid down to drive the plot (I don’t either). Don’t get hung up on trivialities, investigate it for the deeper concepts.

The LAST place in the country that one would expect to return to conservative ideals would be the northeast with their nasty tyrannies where the second and fourth amendemnts are no longer in effect.

I took at double-take on that as well.

However ...

I also recall how something like 85% of CT gun owners just ignored orders to register their firearms under threat of felony indictment. AND how NY state took their registration numbers and slapped "Law Enforcement Sensitive" on them to inhibit their release.

The truth is that there's a massive, and silent, portion of the NE population that is at best apathetic about the statism that's been inflicted on them, at worst quietly seething about it while slowly stockpiling weapons.

So look at it this way, hypothetically say there's a general breakdown/break up of the US. The NE coastal cities will quickly go up in flames and then burn themselves out when the food and water supplies end and thirst/starvation start setting in. What'll be left are the upstate regions, which tend to be much more traditional and Conservative in nature.

I thought the opening lines of the Preface was rather catchy:

“The triumph of the Recovery was marked most clearly by the burning of the Episcopal bishop of Maine.”

“She was not a particularly bad bishop. She was in fact typical of Episcopal bishops of the first quarter of the 21st century: agnostic, compulsively political and radical, and given to placing a small idol of Isis on the altar when she said the Communion service. By 2055, when she was tried for heresy, convicted, and burned, she had outlived her era. By that time only a handful of Episcopalians still recognized female clergy....”