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[JoeyT]

114. Good plan.

I'm sure you'll enjoy living right next to a hostile country full of religious fanatics.

Good luck with the "destroy them" thing, too, since you'd have a fully armed populace and a military against a population that relied solely on the military to protect them. (How long would RTKBA last without the south around? Not long.) Without the influence of the blue states, the red states would have more and more zealots as the sane people fled, so they'd likely kill everyone they came across including the unarmed civilians. Sure a handgun or rifle won't beat a tank most of the time, but it will beat a stick every single time.

Now the states you prefer to keep would probably be able to repel major attacks, but your entire economy would be eaten by military spending and your streets would look like Germany's immediately following WW2. Work commutes would be a real pain when you've got to wait for a tank column to pass by.

Speaking of Germany and WW2, the South would have probably thrown in their lot with Germany, Pearl Harbor would have never happened, and by the time the US got involved, it would have been too late. Instead of sitting here complaining about how terrible the south is, you'd be complaining about how terrible whatever they decided to name the new empire is.