“The divide and grounds for divorce is not regional, but urban and rural.”
THIS.
There is no geographic solution to the “divorce” path. It’s not a simple “yours, mine, done”.
Upstate NY hates NYC.
GA is redneck but for multicultural Atlanta.
Let CA leave, and 90% of the state is still stuck with the moronic-but-powerful 5-mile strip down the coast.
Agree to part, and we’ll just fight even fiercer over who gets what where.
To correct the marital analogy: we need to establish well-defined areas of “leave me alone”. The Right needs the “man cave”, garage, patio, and workshop. The Left needs the sitting room, entertainment center, and vanity. They may still share those areas, but realize that one generally gets to dictate terms THERE and not _everywhere_; vanity rules don’t apply in the man cave, etc.
It’s a sea of red with an archipelago of blue. You can’t just draw a line and declare them separated.