[af_vet_rr]

I’d think in the end you’d have a few leftist totalitarian regimes in places like coastal California, Seattle and Portland, New York and New England and the rust belt cities, but the rest of the country would be reconstituted as a republic again.

Florida already moved left, North Carolina and Virginia moved left, Texas will be left within 10-20 years at the current rate of demographics changes. You talk about 1860, but the states you are talking about here in the 2010s are going to be scattered, low population, and surrounded by leftist states.

And then there is the fact that the remaining conservative states are not going to necessarily be dominated by large conservative majorities to the extent they could undertake something like what you're talking about.

The conditions for the US breaking up are just not there.

[redpoll]

You bring up some good points. In the end, this is in the hands of God, and my guesses are just vanity. I hope that I’m not even close to being correct and that somehow the republic remains standing. God help us.

[coydog]

I would say, the cities and populated and bicoastal areas will be more left than not. The inland countryside will become a wilder place and far less friendly at all to liberal urbanites. It will be more like Yugoslavia, I figure - pockets of left and right all over the place, frequent skirmishes and low-level conflict, and green zones.