“The difficulty arises in that the sides are not easily identified.”
But that is exactly the nature of any civil war. You could be fighting your brother or your neighbor.
Like domestic violence, it’s one of the nastiest business.
Nor are the geographical boundaries apparent. Neither will it be clear which party will have the benefit of the federal government, or our nation's military forces, although those institutions will almost certainly fragment.
It will be Aquila48's (I can smell the salt water from here) "domestic violence" to an unimagined extreme.
And then our circumstances will be exploited by foreign forces.