However, I would imagine that the result would be 50 individual states becoming nations, since each already has a state government in place. Maybe afterwards groups of those states might federate.
It's more likely we'll just default on our national debts. That would seem to be more in keeping with the sorry state our national character.
I agree with you, but I think you’d see interior states getting together with states with either river or coastal access and forming nations.
I think the cities would be in big trouble. Nothing left to hold them up - they’d collapse quickly.
We’d start as 50 states, but we would end up in regional states at some point.
I think the professor has a point, that a break up is possible if the financial system breaks down. I think it’s likely. I also think that it would collapse if they hit DC in a catastrophic way.
We are VERY much a red and blue country now, and the red have had it with the blue. It may appear to be vice-versa, but it’s the red that support the blue. Seattle, for example, is such a resource drain on the rest of WA state that it’s not even a close per capita expenditure comparison.
Any place where state or federal government is the major employer, and there’s a lack of farming/manufacturing know-how - they are going to suffer big initially.
I guess the refreshing part is that environmental fascism will be dead for good, since the entire world will have fallen a few pegs down on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Colorado would be an excellent state to be in, with their coal and uranium. Montana and Wyoming - oil and oil shale.
For all the stretching and pulling they’ve done on the 10th Amendment, all it will take is a government default or 10 city blocks of DC to disappear and we’d be lucky to have had founders with the foresight to see that the nation ought to be a collection of sovereign states.
Alliances would form quickly, I would think. It may even look a lot like the NCAA conferences or IRS regions.
One thing would be fairly certain, however, and that would be a commitment to some sort of continental defense strategy in the short term.