Could blue survive without red? As blue America and red America drift farther apart, one wonders how each would do without the other

We are all Americans. That said, there have been efforts for years to divide us for perceived political reasons. Those who live in the bigger cities often tend to look down their noses to those who don't. We have become a Blue America and a Red America. I personally believe that the colors are reversed, but maybe that's just me. A good representation of red vs. blue can be seen on the 2020 election map by counties.

It has gotten so bad that there are discussions of secession and even civil war, God forbid. It would be difficult to have states against states. The real conflict appears to be larger cities versus the rest of America. The Islanders arrogantly call it flyover country. Call it whatever, but most of America itself is a sea of red with blue islands.

An interesting question might be who could better survive without the other.

What do most of the Blue Islands provide for America? California provides a lot of fruits and vegetables, although not as much as before. Many of our financial centers are on the larger Islands, but some have already moved out to Sea, and it would be simple for others to follow or simply set up new ones. Most larger cities are on Blue Islands. One of their major byproducts is crime, but let's focus on products we need to survive.

The vast majority of our food is grown and produced in our Sea of Red. A substantial part of our manufacturing is in the Sea of Red, and more is coming.

Cars and trucks are made in both. Each have their technology centers. Military bases are in both. Many, perhaps most, military and commercial weapons and ammunition factories are now in the Sea of Red.

In the last twenty years there are over 10-20 million Central Americans that have illegally come to the USA and never left.

Most of them work, but they do not pay income taxes like most of us do. Many also work off the books for people who know they are here illegally.

Even for legitimate companies they state that they have eight dependents. Therefore, they pay SS and Medicare taxes but not FICA. Then a disproportionate amount of their income gets sent out of the country via Western Union.

“Hopefully, that will never again be an issue, as it was in the 1860s.”

If this happens again it will not be like The Late Unpleasantness which really was not a civil war.
It will be like the Russian civil war, Spanish civil war, English civil war, and almost every other civil war. It will be brutal, fought with few rules, and very destructive. The American Revolution was more a civil war than a revolution

It typically is urban vs. rural.

The other blue/red are college towns. Look at the map for WA state for an example. The Blue country in Eastern WA are Spokane and to the south is the county where Washington State is located.

The same in every other place where big universities are located around the country. Here in NH the bluest part of the state is where Dartmouth in located. The next bluest is where UNH is located.

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