One relative in the LA area was berserk last year post-election in wanting Ca. to split from the US. I get the understandable reasons and some POVs. On separation and division, this article from yesterday based on Gallup polling has some interesting points about our current geopolitical demographics, esp. regarding elections and voting. It claims that we've evolved into 3 super regions with similar aspects.
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- A New Regional Paradigm for Following U.S. Elections-, JUNE 25, 2018, by V. Lance Tarrance
Geopolitics is defined as the interrelationship of politics, economics, demographics and geography, and can influence not only elections, but delineate new political power centers and political strategies. Regional groupings of states that are organized around cultural and demographic similarities as well as geography can provide important ways of approaching U.S. politics. U.S. politics today are characterized by deep partisan divides on cultural and political issues. The Cook Political Report recently said that "across the country we're seeing a political division -- some say the greatest since Reconstruction" with "seismic shifts, not just Republicans on one side and Democrats on the other … but on a geographic level."
Traditional Census regions -- the Northeast, Midwest, South and West -- don't fully align with today's political divisions, and the well-known red/blue state classification lacks geographic references. A new scheme is needed that hews closer to the socio-political differences among the states while retaining enough geographic unity to qualify as a "geopolitical" framework or lens for making sense of the nation...https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/235838/new-regional-paradigm-following-elections.aspx?utm_source=tagrss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016210340
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