If Every U.S. State Declared War Against the Others, Which Would Win?

Slate ^ | 11/29/2012

[djf]

This question originally appeared on Quora. It was taken from Quora's "hypothetical battles" topic, where readers "can ask questions and get answer on fighting that wouldn't likely or ever happen in real life."

Answer by Jon Davis, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps:

These are the accounts of the Second American Civil War, also known as the Wars of Reunification and the American Warring States Period. ... Here are the states that held the greatest strategic value from day one. They have the ability to be self-sufficient, economic strength, military strength, the will to fight, and the population to support a powerful war machine.

California Texas New York

Others that have many of the qualities that gave them an advantage are also listed.

Washington Colorado Illinois Virginia Florida Georgia

Excerpted... read the rest at link!

[The Toll]

Duh. Mississippi! Everyone knows this.

[TexasTransplant]

If the fight was held in the Winter it would be Texas in a minute, our population doubles every November

TT

[ansel12]

My dad’s line has been researched with books published, for at least 120 years in this country, so it has a pretty good line established, the family is also heavily researched in other countries and has a long time DNA project going.

We didn’t know any of this until after my father’s funeral, when a scientist cousin who is involved in the genealogy told us and opened up my father’s family to us, my father had largely cut off contact with his family before we were born.

Since then I have gotten into it some and gathered some of the old research books from the past, and from the current leading genealogist from a parallel branch of our family tree.

[TexasTransplant]

Now after careful consideration I agree... Hawaii would WIN

They have Interstate Highways ... that kind of optimism cannot be overlooked.

TT