The states that are the most likely to secede are also the poorest states and the ones that receive the most federal assistance.
I don’t think a secession would turn out as well for states as you think...
Yes, but when you have to choose between eating and living in a failed nation state, I’ll choose eating. We may not have much manufacturing, but we have agriculture. Making things to sell isn’t so glamorous on an empty stomach.
Being bankrupt as an entire nation won’t be too great either.
No good choices have been left to us.