I tend to disagree. There was a galvanizing moral issue in the War Between the States that motivated northerners to fight hard against southern independence. There is no such issue today. Can you really imagine Washington and the American people generally fighting with the kind of sacrifices seen in the 1860's or 1940's to keep a conservative breakaway South Carolina (i.e, the Exodus project), or a hispanicized Arizona, in the Union?
I can't see it. I think if conservatives really did pull off an exodus to a state like S.C. and made it clear that they would fight tooth and nail, Washington would be forced to blink. Liberals would say 'let them go' not 'let's suffer a million casualties to keep them'.
I can't see it. I think if conservatives really did pull off an exodus to a state like S.C. and made it clear that they would fight tooth and nail, Washington would be forced to blink. Liberals would say 'let them go' not 'let's suffer a million casualties to keep them'.
I think the Hispanics (the poor ones) will simply be one big voting block for the Democrats, and vote themselves as many entitlements as they can from the government. Why would they want to leave when they can be safe and taken care of as part of their own piece of the U.S.?
As to a Conservative exodus, the Federal Law enforcement and military would act to crush the movement. Any plan to break away from the U.S., no matter how radical or socialist the government in Washington is, has to deal with the reality that the militarized police forces under central government command would act to stop it.
I think the Soviet Union fell apart because we were pushing them to compete where they simply ran out of money. I would guess it will take a few generations for this country on its own to become poor enough and fragmented enough to not be able to be held together by force of arms.
But I could be wrong.