“We would be treated much the same way Rhodesia was in 1965 when they declared independence from Britain.”
The blue counties would need to trade with us to eat and for energy. Going to war with us wouldn’t solve their problem. We would ending up having all the power. They wouldn’t make it through 1 quarter without us.
I hope you are right. Farmland in our territory getting sold to the ChiComms does not help though.
“They wouldn’t make it through 1 quarter without us.”
Sounds like the same kind of argument secessionists made prior to the civil war. England would ally with the Confederacy because England needed the South’s cotton. One Southerner defending his home was worth 10 Yankee hirelings.
Both of those arguments turned out to be wrong.
I expect your argument would also turn out to be wrong.