When Republicans are next in power then that would be the ideal time for a large state, or group of states, to secede.
There would be bloodshed if it was done when dems are in power.
This will happen sometime in the next 50 years no matter what. The country is in a downward socialistic spiral. People will demand a place to escape to.
The new nation would thrive, the old nation would soon collapse and state after state would petition to join the new free nation. The old nation would eventually print money like Weimar Germany and the value of the old dollar would drop to a tiny fraction of what it is now.
Yes, I know it won’t happen...what I fear will happen is some sort of civil war...very bad business that.
Not history major, eh? ;^)
The last time states seceded, the Republicans were in charge... and it got juuuust a little bloody (more killed in 3 years than in all other US wars combined).
The truth is that there are very very few examples in the history of humankind where a section of a nation (or a colony) tried to break away peacefully and they weren't attacked within a short period of time. It's a human nature thing. It has nothing to do with individual political philosophy. (Among the reasons our Constitution was such a n incredible document is that it accounted for the fact that governments, of ALL stripes, behave in much the same way... inexorably seeking more power and control, and rarely, if ever, ceding any.)