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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“Southern and middle Illinois has little use for the Chicago metro area.”
Believe me, even counties other than Cook in the “Chicago metro area” have no use for Chicago, and most if not all would side with the rest of the state. In a nutshell, Cook County and Chicago are pariahs, and are pretty much despised by the rest of the state.
Texas - and they have a lot of guns...just sayin’
The premise is stupid. States would form confederations. Why would Arkansas fight Oklahoma?
Fascinating question. Would make a great video game.
I go with New Jersey! Our governor will fight for us! (Well at least call names and tax any conquerors to death)
Unrealistic and poorly imagined. The author is almost indifferent to local character and not terribly well informed on weapons outside those in use by the USMC.
- He doesn’t have Salt Lake City take charge of Utah plus the surrounding Mormon areas, as they would in such a crisis.
- He doesn’t have significant friction between urban areas and their rural surroundings, as we would certainly see from Chicago, New York City, and Philadelphia.
- He has Virginia take Maryland - why would they want a far-left freak state that produces almost nothing they need?
- He has Texas fighting wars of conquest - why would they want the other states?
“The war reached a turning point when a New York based flotilla made a decisive push to take Washington D.C. In response, a nuclear device was used on the fleet and all the ships, sailors and Marines on that mission were lost.”
Nope. Nukes are not magic, and warships need far more elbow room just to sail safely. Unless the “flotilla” is two or three ships total and they are sailing too close to each other, that’s not happening.
“The West coast was now controlled by the two main powers-California with its seat of power in San Francisco and The North West Union (Washington, Oregon, and Idaho) centered in Seattle.”
There is no way in the world that Idaho could be controlled by a government centered in Seattle. They have lumber, minerals, beef, corn, potatoes, sugar beets, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power. They don’t need anyone else. The state as a whole is not fond of (moderate) Boise’s comparative liberalism, and they despise Seattle as much as they despise California.
I could go on, but I found his fantasy useless. Texas is not California but with less fruit and vegetable acreage for their agriculture. The states still have distinctive characters, as do rural parts of states controlled by their urban zones, and he doesn’t take either fact into account at all.
“neo-confederates”
Sigh... BS/bias meter went off the scale. California and NY would have no soldiers...beaners and other illegals would form factions to protect themselves and and say screw you gringos! Libtards would wet their pants.
There is no such thing as “the Carolinas.”
North Carolina with it’s gun culture, military bases, and retired military didn’t even get real consideration. Pretty stupid. New Yorkers and Californians in the military, in large part serving in NC would stay. Their states’ leaders hate them.
Chicago is already at war with itself.
There's more firearms in California than in any other state in the country. It will likely see the bloodiest fighting of anywhere as the various factions within the state take up arms against each other.
Absolutely correct.
I remember two years ago when the major gasoline pipeline between Texas and New York (Colonial Pipeline) was severed somewhere near Birmingham, Alabama.
Within a week, prices shot up by $.50-1.00 and many gas stations ran out of gas, especially around Atlanta.
Now imagine who controls the pipeline, and what they’d do to it, if every state was on their own.
Also, I don’t agree that the country would be divided into 50 republics. Alliances would form immediately. The writer starts his piece with Texans discriminating against Oklahomans, who would, in reality, from the very beginning, be citizens together in a greater alliance.
Never heard of Quora. I don’t do Facebook or Twitter. Just looks like trouble to me. You may find this hard to believe, but my real name is not Vaquero (sarc assumed). Sure government @$$holes can look me up through IP address etc but to most I’m incognito. I like it that way.
For myself? I would fight to the death to defend my family and our liberty. If that means fighting against my state, so be it.
Just doing the assaulting and conquering that Americans won't do.
These hill people are only good at smoking meth and shooting heroin. They're as dependent upon the government for the food they eat as any welfare mom in Atlanta. They won't put up much of a fight, not that anyone is going to try to invade their kudzu-devoured trailer parks.
California, Oregon, and Washington states don’t have the guts or economy to pull this off. The mental status of these Starbucks, tree hugging, libs wouldn’t even know how to pull this off. Btw, what would all those marines in ca,p Pendleton do, sit on their thumbs the whole time?
Not buying this.
Targets of opportunity.
Boomers operate out of Kings Bay, Georgia and Kitsap, Washington.
However in reality a second civil war would be urban vs. rural and red vs. blue with a lot of Chinese "peacekeepers" sent in quickly.
Heck, yeah!
It sounds like "The Walking Dead."
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