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I agree and have been promulgating this idea for some time. The US is not the country it was 270, 150, or even 70 years ago. I would rather we do a soft balkanization where the Red States form a union that can negotiate with the Blue States contingent.
But I can also see the Blue States not liking that arrangement since Red States don't really need much from Blue States.
Waaaaait a minute, this is starting to sound awfully familiar to another civil war we had in this country....
I'm not sure that there's much need for negotiation. Red states are stronger because they suffer from far less rot than blue states. Blue states appear strong because they have large populations and wealth, but that wealth is mostly in investment funny money and not assets or infrastructure, and the populations are made up of mentally ill progressives and balkanized immigrants.
People will volunteer to risk their lives for the idea of Tennessee or Texas. Chicagolanders aren't going to volunteer to fight for the idea of Illinois.
As long as we're talking about fantasies, I'd rather we keep the whole country but split off the big cities into their own walled off protected zones or districts.
The special districts are operated by their parent state, which may decide who may enter and leave the district.
Federal regulation determines the borders of the districts based on a population density calculation.
They are treated like DC as far as getting no representation. They do not count towards their state's electoral college votes. Maybe each one gets one vote and one representative, but no senators. (they all vote Dem already so that won't change anything)
Every year we will hold an exciting nation-wide combat tournament with two players from each district participating, to remind the districts why they exist and what that they lost.
The more extreme the left gets leading up to formal secession, the more violent separation seems likely.
The Red States will suffer under the weight of a large portion of their population losing the welfare that a lot of them live under their entire life.
Now, will the Blue States with their empathy and pro-race stances suddenly take in the massive black populations when they get expelled for that welfare problem? Oh funny. Which leaves a pretty big problem that will not just disappear.
Welfare people will lose out, dummy. Good. Go away.
Obviously. The point is that it isn't a simple "we go our separate ways" separation. If you aren't willing to delve into some deep racist/racial politics you will lose before you start. And that's just one single angle of it.
And the last time the South had a large amount of black people it no longer wanted, the rest of the country didn't happily take in those guys they pretended to care so much about and they won't now either. They won't be going anywhere easily.
That's why I live in a state with no niggers or jews.
If by "suffer," you mean "benefit, as people who have long had very little incentive to find work, now do so," then I agree with you.
It's hard to get people to work, even harder when someone is giving them enough to get by. People who are just getting by on handouts also are largely idle, which gives them time for other things, like drugs and crime.
You think the Administrative Regime gives out welfare to people to benefit their communities? Whew, lad.
I've lived in those communities, and I can promise you that when the handout dries up they don't put on their boots and work. They just increase the crime and milk whatever source of money they can still skirt by with.
Black single moms still to this day pop out more babies when they want more money, they beat them until they act dumb enough to qualify for special ed bonuses, and you think someone like that will nut up and work? That's the real whew, lad.
I live in those communities right now, and own a business here, and I can promise you that they do. There is a great big class of people that do what they need to do--but only that much--to support themselves. We're having a hard time down South right now economic-wise solely because the lower-level people we need to do grunt work have too much cash in their pockets, given to them as various forms of "aid" or "assistance." They will not get their butts back in the kitchen, in the stock rooms, in the shop, etc. until their magical free money runs out.
Not only do I know this, but it's incredibly widely known. The whole Country is experiencing this at the same time, in the same way, for the same reasons. It's not that there's a lack of jobs, it's that a huge chunk of people don't see why they should bother. The incremental improvement to their life isn't worth putting in the effort. Just like every other time this has happened, when the bennies dry up, they'll drag themselves to work.
Also--what were we talking about? Right, the idea that the Administrative State placates the plebes with subsistence, because they're just that nice, especially to the underclass in Red States. Without that magic money paying our able-bodied layabouts to not work, we'd suffer. Is that seriously what we're still going for here? Because you know, that's a type of suffering I'd be more than willing to risk. Let's try it and see how it goes.