As wonderful a fantasy as a "Velvet Divorce - American Style" is, the reality is that even the reddest of red states is purple. The process of relocating people, businesses, selling property, etc, etc, etc, would inevitably devolve into a bloodbath.
A military coup and subsequent forced reboot of the Constitution would be a day at the beach in comparison. What the hell, we're already so far outside the bounds of our founding documents anyway. How can we really expect to fix it via Constitutional means?
As wonderful a fantasy as a "Velvet Divorce - American Style" is, the reality is that even the reddest of red states is purple. The process of relocating people, businesses, selling property, etc, etc, etc, would inevitably devolve into a bloodbath.Yes, I agree. The purple states would be the worst. Many states show the same pattern: urban areas that are totally lib-infested. Rural areas that are solid conservative. Usually the city side outnumbers and dominates the country side. That's the case in Oregon, California, Washington. It's only rural states without big cities that are able to stay Red consistently. Wyoming, Montana. As Denver has become a major metropolois they have dragged Colorado into the Blue column.
Were a seccession moment come, it's unlikely that all those red counties would continue to be happy to be ruled by the massive blue metropolisis at their centers.
I foresee both ethnic and political cleansing on a large scale. Archy has suggested the model for an American CWII event is something more like 'the dirty wars' of Argentina and Chille in the 1970 and 80s, and less like a CW1. I think he's probably right about this.