This will be a land mass of shared borders and no shared values. Within 5 years, the liberal states will form alliances and relationships with Canada and Europe and Japan and the conservative states will become Haiti. The only issues holding this up from happening now are the securitization of the nuclear arsenal and the establishment of contiuous borders - for instance, the liberal states will have to take over a narrow but long swath of land from North Dakota, across Montana and all the way to the Puget Sound. There will also need to be access to the port of New Orleans and the Mississippi-Missouri River system as well.
I am not kidding or being hypderbolic. I have already drawn maps in my head that lead to a partioning of the states (and greater cooperation with Mexico and Canada for the Pacific coast and southern border regions; with alliances with Greenland/Denmark/Canada and the EU for the Atlantic Coast down to Washington D.C.). Trump and his morons can have the Gulf of Mexico coasts and rot in them.
The other partitioning would involve splitting the coasts and the Great Lakes regions off and result in a Balkanization of the continent that would likely result in constant proxy wars for a few decades, or until the Neo-Confederacy runs out of money and people.
It is going to happen. The question is when and how. Peacefully seems unlikely, but would be better in the end for the planet and the people of each region. Eventually, Donald Trump will be known and remembered in history as the most hated man of the 21st century, sidling up next to Hitler and Napoleon...which is why I will choose to teach the opposite side and denigrate Trump as an ill-tempered fool who lied and stole until he was eventually killed by his own one time fans.
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