A more likely scenario is that the states will hold a convention and abolish the federal government. Then we break into confederacies composed of states with like-minded political philosophies. Each will go their own way, with some succeeding and even thriving, and others descending into chaos and totalitarian rule.
I sure wouldn’t want to be in the northeast or mid-west. People with little or no heating fuel and long winters will be worst hit.
The lightly populated areas of the southeast should make out well with its year-round growing season. So food will be plentiful. The mild winters also favor good survival for populations.
California would have been a good survival area with its mild climate, but with millions of welfare savages roaming the state, I wouldn’t want to be there.
The people in the big cities simply don’t have the resourcefulness to easily survive. If large numbers of citizens die, it will be in the big cities.
Most people trying to tough it out on 40 acres in the bush also won’t make it, especially if large cities are nearby. It’s impossible to guard a 40 acre perimeter with two people and a few kids. Say bye-bye.
People who band together in small Christian communities of like-minded people who believe in the constitution and are heavily armed will thrive. If that community is salted with a good number of military veterans, that’s also a plus.
We shall see...
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It could happen. I noticed someone posted the Civil War II keyword (cwii). The fragmenting of our great union would be a tragedy, but it may be the end result of runaway “diversity” or multiculturalism”.
Some things are just incompatible: looters and producers; islamists and constitutionalists; marxists and people who love freedom and personal responsibility....
Here in Maine, the winters are long, but we are the most heavily forested state in America.
We have an endless amount of hardwood here.....maple, ash, beech, birch, and some oak. It’s a lot of work, but many people have massive woodpiles to heat their homes (or supplement the home heating oil, which won’t be available in a true crisis).
In my own neighborhood of mid-sized acreages most folk’s have been armed to the teeth forever so an invasion of starving city folk would result in a reduction in the city folk population. We had a “neighborhood watch” formed in an earlier dicey time so I expect you’re about right——we’ll probably need to do that again. Remind me later to keep a trench dug so’s I can dispose of the detritus. I already do that to dispose of varmits that get themselves trapped, car-hit, dead, etc. but it looks like I might need a bigger one.
There's a reason most of the inland south was lightly populated from the very beginnings of this nation. Year-round growing conditions exist in subtropical to tropical areas. Disease. To help paint the picture, as a college student I worked summers at a gorgeous old mountain lodge and resort that had it's beginnings as a summer retreat for the well-to-do of Charleston and Savannah. It belonged to a former Confederate of note, Wade Hampton. They fled the "foul miasmas," yellow fever, mosquito borne diseases. The old money set from those locales still summer there, despite the eradication of the disease that set their ancestors fleeing. Tradition and all that, southerners are big on it.
Further inland, there is no year-round growing season. Winter is much shorter and less severe, true. The soil tends toward red clay. You can grow a great garden in it if you know what you're doing, but it takes work and soil enrichment. Without that, red clay makes excellent brick and that is exactly what it seems like after baking in the hot summer sun. I've actually had a pickaxe bounce off of it before, when I was trying to install a dry laid fieldstone wall one July. I ended up waiting until October, lol.
A mild temperate climate with enough rain or surface water to avoid drought conditions would be best, and soil type matters. Silt loam, brown to black. Hard to find that in mild temperate zones. Riverbottoms in the far southern Appalachians, especially in the "thermal belt" that rarely gets snow on the ground would work. The cities there have gone way left for the most part, see Asheville, NC. The more remote areas are either foo-foo resort or very clannish mountain people who would view you with suspicion.
And now is the time to start networking, I think. Find out who you can ally with who won't freak out when the time comes, and to supply each other with goods and services, mutual protection (gotta sleep sometime), and to start the rebuild process.
I thought I had an "in" with the mayor of our town because he carpools with a good friend of mine. I was wanting to schedule discussions on the event of hyperinflation sealing the town, building up supplies, setting up distribution networks...but unfortunately I found out he is a typical Dem class warfarist type of leader. My town is hopeless it appears, I'll have to look elsewhere to network.