[Travis McGee]

Just leave Arizona or Texas for me, and your terms are acceptable.

[Poohbah]

Not offering any sort of "terms," just saying what would wind up happening.

Even the relatively open "Great Plains" or the "Great Basin" provide plenty of fascinating terrain for guerillas to shoot up an unwary or tired convoy. You'd see El Salvador-style "toll booths" set up by the guerillas.

Like I said, government-imposed violence--absent a very deep commitment from all to the social compact, something that large-scale levels of authoritarian violence would destroy--becomes statistically ineffective in short order.

[Double Tap]

Just leave Arizona or Texas for me, and your terms are acceptable.

Sorry fella, but Texas is mine. Although I'm sure Squantos will have something to say about that. Maybe he will split it with me.