[JusPasenThru]

Anyone here ever read “Prayers for the Assassin”? It discusses one scenario for the balkanization the USA.

[PerConPat]

I'll check into that, thanks. I have posted on the subject of Balkanization of the US before here on FR. I believe it would be likely prior to any widespread physical conflict between factions. It has actually been percolating for decades in localities where elected sheriffs etc. stated they would not enforce controversial state and federal laws.

The nature of state or federal response to this sort of "disobedience" or some type of more coordinated regional Balkanization, not necessarily secession, would probably be the determining factor in the actual start of coordinated violence by citizen groups.