Posted on 05/13/2018 4:04:06 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
We recently came across the following question on Quora: "If every state of the USA declared war against each other, which would win?" We've published the full answer from Quora user Jon Davis, a Marine veteran who is now a writer and blogger on military, veterans, and Middle Eastern affairs. In Oct. 2014, Davis' answer was optioned by a Hollywood producer for a potential television series.
These are the accounts of the Second American Civil War, also known as the Wars of Reunification and the American Warring States Period.
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Because you sure aren't giving much credit to the people on my side.
Have a great day buddy.
Simple answer is Kansas. Nobody except for Missouri holds a grudge against them and the Army at Ft. Riley is big enough to hold them back.
yup, the RATS wouldn't last too long round here in WNY
A great read....hopefully the tv series doesn’t get turned liberal and stays true to regional alliances.
Hate to say it but if the States split, Alaska is split between Canada and Russia, no war, the Natives will need food just to survive the first winter.
It was a reply to a blog post essentially...not a novel.
To ask those questions and demand the answers in a blog post is a being a little unrealistic.
When you think about the fact it was a reply to a blog post it is actually very well done.
Just guessing, he probably meant New England.
JIT does make production more vulnerable to supply problems. I never thought about the major problem that is caused during a major crisis.
Suxed if you ask me.
And what side is your side?
I don't think you even know because you seem to think there are only two sides; on one side are the transgender snowflakes frightened of loud noises and the other side, patriotic Americans singing Lee Greenwood songs, and this is the side with all the guns, military training, and will to fight.
You couldn't be more wrong.
What side am I on? As I said above, I'll be sitting in my garage with a rifle, defending my gas-powered generator.
“Southern and middle Illinois has little use for the Chicago metro area.”
I’d put the dividing line just about at I-80, maybe a little south. And I’d bet the folks west of I-39 would split off, too. Maybe as far east as 355. The folks in Kane, DuPage, and Will counties wouldn’t much like being run by Crook County.
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Unwashed minority among leftists.
you’ve kind of skipped over the immense manpower advantage - even diluted by their infighting and sedentary lifestyles - that cities have.
I’ll go with my home state of Iowa. We have the Mississippi moat on the east and the Missouri moat on the west. We’ll just tell the Minnesotans that it’s too darned hot down here in the south, and the Missourians that it’s too cold way up here in the north....
“Seminoles never were defeated.”
The Seminoles greatest ally, the Everglades, is but a pittance of what it was in their time.
“The trail faded and we see that the vaults are all completely empty. Every last bar, every last ounce is gone. “
POTUS Trump, please order an audit of FT. Knox before you leave office.
The whole premise is ridiculous. There are two Americas, not fifty, with the suburbs in between. There is blood red countryside in every state, that go overwhelmingly Republican in every election cycle.
In virtually any SHTF scenario, the big cities in each state will become morgues, with local warlords controlling the countryside between to keep stragglers from making organized raids deep into red territory.
The battlegrounds, as in the elections, would be the suburbs. That’s most of the hand-to-hand would take place.
Most “southerners” aren’t from the south. You’ve been invaded by outsiders. Continue with your delusions.
Indeed, plus the further North you go the shorter the growing season is. Most of our produce comes from CA.
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2015/04/decalifornify-cotton-vegetables-fruit-south/
California produces a sizable majority of many American fruits, vegetables, and nuts: 99 percent of artichokes, 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic, 89 percent of cauliflower, 71 percent of spinach, and 69 percent of carrots (and the list goes on and on). Some of this is due to climate and soil. No other state, or even a combination of states, can match California’s output per acre. Lemon yields in California, for example, are more than 50 percent higher than in Arizona. California spinach yield per acre is 60 percent higher than the national average. Without California, supply of all these products in the United States and abroad would dip, and in the first few years, a few might be nearly impossible to find http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2013/07/california_grows_all_of_our_fruits_and_vegetables_what_would_we_eat_without.html
[yet]
half our fruit is imported...Over the past two decades, the United States Department of Agriculture has issued roughly 100 new rules allowing specific crops to be imported from certain countries — like peppers from Peru. Crops that previously would have not been approved because they might introduce invasive pests and diseases were allowed in through new “systems approaches”..As a result, the proportion of the imported fresh fruit eaten in the United States rose to 53.1 percent in 2016, from 23 percent in 1975..
Of some concern is a 2015 report from the Food and Drug Administration that found that 9.4 percent of imported fruit samples violated federal standards for pesticide residues, compared with 2.2 percent of domestic samples...
Whatever the drawbacks or advantages, imports are likely to continue growing. According to a recent Agriculture Department report, fresh produce imports will rise 45 percent from 2016 to 2027, . 
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/dining/fruit-vegetables-imports.html
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