Born and raised in the suburbs of Denver but I've lived in Jacksonville, Florida since 2004. I know from what I speak.
The South is not one unified, hand-holding, monolith of traditional values solidarity.
Looking around the solidly middle-class subdivision where I live, I'd say that about half my neighbors weren't born in Florida and about half of them voted for Hillary Clinton.
No, neighboring states are not going to "join together" because there isn't going to be a war between states. It's going to be a free-for-all where, if anything, the only solidarity will be amongst neighbors who band together primarily to defend their families from hoodlums with little concern over who we each voted for.
OK. Where I live (Alabama) folks are much more monolithic. Whites vote Conservative mostly, blacks democrat. I’m unhappy about the racial divide but what can I do?
I do agree with you that IF there was total chaos, sSurvival would be job one.
I think the joining together happens long after the dust settles.
And the South will be one part, the Northeast another, etc.
I would HOPE that the survivors would be nostalgic for our current times, and strive to recreate it.
But that would be after all the Mad Max wore off.
But the whole thing is crazy speculation, after all, for whatever either of us thinks, no?
The whole point was based on the question of what would happen if each state became a separate country. Now as silly and as unlikely as that is, I still suspect many people in many states would not want to be in separate countries, but joined together somehow.
The original question never said they’d immediately be in some apocalypse at first, but would get that way because they’d be at each other’s throats...