RIP USA -- Poll: Half of Trump voters, 41% of Biden voters support splitting up the U.S.

[Hortensis]

64. Living in GA, I've thought of this each time people imagine a split or splits.

Just looking at the South, I believe that, without federal laws, spreading of wealth from other states to benefit southern people, and bribes to governments to encourage what's needed, a south turned over to the control of what the GOP has become would inevitably go into decline. The combination of withdrawal of liberal state support with the RW extremism (social and economic) that Republicans have degraded to and severe effects from both climate change and flight of important businesses would be horrific.

How bad's my question. Although there would be attempts by a "GOP" nation and states to do what was necessary to save itself, I believe that ideological incompetence and corruption are so severe at this point that a transition to widespread poverty, failing services, and high crime, terrorism, and moving in of drug cartels and other organized crime, could conceivably happen shockingly quickly, perhaps even within a decade or so. Russia, which exports corruption to destroy nations, would focus its efforts to make it happen, also other external enemies.

And the rest of the country absolutely would be affected for the worse, in every way possible. But think mass migration out of the south, legal and illegal, and southern incursions into and battles for border states, for just a couple of big effects that don't need experts to explain would happen. The millions of migrants and outright refugees fleeing danger and persecution would not be coming with pockets fat with equity from sales of their homes and businesses, either. By far most would be poor, many destitue.

This goes to various degrees for all the conservative regions of this nation, especially including the southwest. Though some would do better, such as the mountain states, none would do as well as Americans there have always been accustomed to. Except for those states that saw the light and were able to change, and ideally tried to rejoin the union. If both sides allowed.