[hopespringseternal]

By the outbreak of hostilites in 1861 we had two distinct cultures that had clear geographical and economic boundaries.

Compare the average inner city to a suburb 20 miles away in the red states.

[Ajnin]

Prior to the Civil War the North and South for the most part were contiguous in their areas of influence. There was wide spread support for the goals of the repsective antoganists.

Modern day America is balkanized into incoherent areas of influence. There isn’t even widespread support for closing the border let alone defending real American values in a civil war.