[Pecos]

The separation is city v. country rather than by state boundaries. From the article: "Royalists accused Parliamentarians of blasphemy and corruption, while Parliamentarians replied that Royalist corruption was even worse, and was magnified by the royal court’s sexual deviance and willingness to sell the country to foreigners."

Replace "Royalists" with "Current self-styled ruling class" and "Parliamentarians" with "the rest of the country" and you'll get pretty close to today's picture. We all remember Hillary selling 20% of our uranium, don't we?

I don't want a civil war and I'll not fire the first shot, but I may fire the last shot.

[ought-six]

“I don’t want a civil war and I’ll not fire the first shot, but I may fire the last shot.”

You and me both.