Wow! Just spent some time glancing thru it. Great stuff, except for some major premises that I believe are wrong...
1. I do not expect to see a revitalized but traditional American culture happen in the Northeast. It just isn’t going to happen unless they kill most of the current inhabitants—which might be part of the book, but I didn’t see that. That part of the country just has too many Leftists and too many big cities. Not a good combination for traditional values.
2. The New South as a racial Hellhole. I’m sorry, the writer really doesn’t understand the Southern WHITE man. They will not put up with that $h1t. They are the traditional warriors of America (just look at military volunteer rolls for the past two centuries!) and do like a good fight, and will die before being insulted too much. The traditional Christian values that founded the country are still more present here (hence the nickname, “Bible Belt”) and this means that they will turn the other cheek, but to a point. Then the racial war the author writes about will begin, but the minority will lose, and lose totally. It might be an ugly piece of ethnic cleansing, but it will happen. So in the end, a visit to Atlanta will be far more pleasant for the protagonist.
I have often thought about this, because from a racial standpoint, I live right on the divide, with my county in Alabama being very white, and the next county over being about totally black. In a fight when all local authority is absent, I see the black county being invaded and an open season on anyone perceived as a thug. This is not just racial prejudice, but years of pent-up anger at being the constant scapegoats for the post Civil Rights era race-baiters. Jesse Jackson spit in their ice tea, and they haven’t forgotten. Payback will truly be a bitch. Meanwhile, the thugs that generally prey on each other for drugs and money will be slaughtered, without the veneer of law and order and Christian piety to hold the Good Ole Boys back.
I’m not suggesting such a thing should happen, but rather if it gets that far (from the author’s first section on the Dissolution of the USA), it WILL happen as I stated.
I too am in Alabama, in a majority-white county that borders a majority-black county, and I too am concerned about retribution in a civil war scenario. Chickens coming home to roost, like Obama’s “Reverend” said.
Well, like I said, I don’t necessarily agree with all the premises that drive the plot either. But we need to focus on the deeper concepts about 4GW that are outlines. That is the real value of this book, I believe.