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I’ll put my money on the gun owning, freedom-minded, know-how-to-grow-and-fix-things country folk over the metrosexual city idiots who can’t do anything without a cell phone. Just get the blockade lines established quickly and enforce them ruthlessly.

The US military plays a bigger role in this than either group. Timing is also important, as are public perceptions. I can imagine freedom-minded folks trying to quickly establish and ruthlessly enforce blockade lines getting the hell shot out of them.

[Morpheus2009]

Naval blockades would be worse considering that carriers are in play now, something not in play in the 1860s, not to mention airplanes in general.