It could go the other way....[It's a call to "arms"].
..............Among the eleven regional cultures, there are two superpowers, nations with the identity, mission, and numbers to shape continental debate: Yankeedom and Deep South. For more than two hundred years, they’ve fought for control of the federal government and, in a sense, the nation’s soul. Over the decades, Deep South has become strongly allied with Greater Appalachia and Tidewater, and more tenuously with the Far West. Their combined agenda—to slash taxes, regulations, social services, and federal powers—is opposed by a Yankee-led bloc that includes New Netherland and the Left Coast. Other nations, especially the Midlands and El Norte, often hold the swing vote, whether in a presidential election or a congressional battle over health care reform. Those swing nations stand to play a decisive role on violence-related issues as well.....
His analysis has some valid points, but is heavily colored by his “progressive” world view. He ignores inconvenient facts to make it fit.
A glaring example is placement of Louisiana with a high murder rate, in the “Deep South” when most of the killing in Louisiana occurs in the part that he assigns to “New France”.
Murder is a cultural phenomena. However, it is much more dominated by black and hispanic cultures than it is by region.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/01/european-murder-rates-compared-to.html