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

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73. Failing a RW coup d'etat, tho, we will normalize again. Even in the south

a solid majority supports civil rights and social justice for everyone. We're not in the 1950s but in a period of enraged reaction against the great advances in equality that we've continued into this century so far.

And although many younger people breed true, most were born into and comfortable with a changed world and just don't share their elders' social anxieties, or fegressive aspirations, to anything like the same degree.

As you say about the "split" fantasy. I really can't imagine conditions under which a split might occur. They'd either be so good we'd be throwing flowers at each other and promising to visit often or so bad that both sides would already be devastated and desperate. We have far too much to lose, and we would lose it, by allowing backwards states to become a failed nation or nations on our border. Before that, of course, there comes our absolute duty to protect the rights and property of citizens residing in those states.