As Pat Buchanan has pointed out, national borders are cultural barriers. With the diverging cultures in the United States, it is only a matter of time before coastal areas secede and form an EU-like entity, themselves.
Please let that happen!!!
With the diverging cultures in the United States, it is only a matter of time before coastal areas secede and form an EU-like entity, themselves.
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Good.
Although the outcome is inevitable and more a question of how long it will take. Eventually they will not be happy just having the largest ports, and the isolation of their service and broker-centric economies will correct because they wont have nearly the natural resources as well as many other commodities they had before and wont like the prices and they will attempt to stifle, deal, and block foreign trade and try to get leverage in their trade deals with non-coastal US. When that doesn’t work they will use heavy handed tactics to start ‘annexing’ valuable territories, borders will get closed, skirmishes will happen, and war will break out.