When you break it down below the State level, there’s a lot of purple. States turned Red or Blue based on small percentages, for the most part.
It won’t be State against State, it’ll be neighborhood against neighborhood. Some on this forum call for secession.
And it might turn into something like the “Troubles” in Ireland.
Also, at the start of CW I, many thought it was going to be a short romp, that they’d win easily and quickly...many on both sides thought that.
Read about the Commune in Paris in 1870—Communist defended the city for months before it fell. That’s how LA and SF would be defended. Millions would die. Fight for the New People’s Republic of California—or be shot by the Red Guards! It would rip the nation apart—but I don’t think it would last long—maybe a year.
“It won’t be State against State, it’ll be neighborhood against neighborhood.”
One look at your local county voting rolls (often available online), and you’ll see it will be neighbor vs neighbor.
Not good.
In the meantime a powerful break on violence would be the economic collapse as people lose jobs and commerce becomes impossible. This would hit the blue cities harder and more quickly, but it would affect everyone.
“When you break it down below the State level, there’s a lot of purple. States turned Red or Blue based on small percentages, for the most part.”
Break it down to voting precinct, and there’s a sharp division at the edge of urban areas. “Secession”/”CWII” would be urban vs rural. There can’t be secession, precisely because it’s an archipelago of Leftist islands amid a sea of conservatism (which makes sense: people living like sardines need pervasive rules to survive/function, dispersed individuals just want to be left alone).
If the Left would just get it thru their heads that rural types don’t need/want pervasive laws, and function on a different set of needs/supplies, we’d all get along much better. Just quit bossing the “red areas” around.