Coloradan. Only if a neighboring State does, because if not, we are neighboring other borders and we would be landlocked without food or water imports. Its either all Pacific and Front Range States agree we have to split, or none of us can.
Our most populous cities, Denver and CO Springs, are below the mountains, and are screwed in a combat scenario.
I don’t see Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, or Kansas doing so willingly.
New Mexico went Kamala. Border state.
In American balkanization I imagine yall would be a battleground of the literal variety. Colorado and new Mexico would want to join Pacifica and Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, and Montana likely won’t. But also you’re valuable enough to justify putting up a stink for
Our water? It comes from dwindling snowpack due to climate change. I think you are overstating our pull here dude.
I think Colorado could force AZ to do what they want just by threatening to turn off the water.
Sure? Balkanization seems like a good way to speed up the process of the Empire collapsing.
plus there is the bonus of schadenfreunde, since they always want to balkanize countries that happen to stand in their path.
Balkan are the greatest thing ever.
yeah if we figure out a way to not starve
Fuck it why not. This country is proving to be a global liability due to its structure, size, and lack of codified protections for its own handling.
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I would absolutely prefer to be something else
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Can’t believe you’re not downvoted. How dare you say you want to change the nation for the better and not just secede
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Yeah, it’s a little too late for that.
Agreed, that ship has sailed.
This throws under the bus the many many non republicans in places gerrymandered such that the minority can continue it’s rule. My life would probably get better, but only at their expense as more and more solvent states leave the union. I’m not willing to ‘punish’ those people for the crime of being born in a impossibly corrupt district.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Why did democrats not stop the gerrymandering? Why are there so many laws that should not exist still there?
Because democrats have found a way to benefit from their own misuses of the law as well, so you can see how this leaves the people trying to change this with impossible choices they have to suffer consequences of even if they make the best one. It takes a lot of fight to stand up and keep pushing through that, and those are exactly the folk I’m proud to call my country-kin
Democrats do gerrymandering too. Basically without gerrymandering, the power would shift about 4% in Democrats favor. Enough to shift power in the House, but not as much as people think.
(That statistic comes from a video I watched a while ago, and could be wrong, so take it with a grain of salt. I’m not an authority on this matter.)
I suspect politics would actually shift a huge minority amount towards “no, don’t kill the planet, my grandchildren live here”.
The billionaire planet killers can afford to buy up and lock down two parties. I doubt they can afford to buy out everyone.
And that outdated electoral college, smells like the fourth republic in france IMO.
I’m not so sure. Once the Republicans no longer have the democrats to fight against, they will fight against each other. This might happen as well in the leaving blue states, but I feel like the democrates don’t hold as big of a majority in most of them. So they are already used to it. And they aren’t so much the party of fire and brimstone. So more likely they would try to do all the social reforms and just fall on thier faces.
Gotta break a few eggs, etc.
Might be cruel but kinda my thought. We can’t save everyone.
Only as a last resort and everything else has been tried.
I want a great lake union that partners with portions of Canada to control the vast amounts of fresh water
Bring back the western reserve!
Absolutely. Not because I think it would necessarily be better off, but because I don’t want us to contribute to the empire and the loss of our economy would devastate the US.
i want new england to join canada T_T
You will all be required to learn French
Small enough price to pay
the owl already got it’s hooks in me a long time ago.
plus my goal is always to move to montreal and have a queer indie bookstore :)
Same. Individual states seceding would get nowhere. New England as a whole? That could work lmao
Indiana. We’d fail so hard and so fast that I literally cannot imagine it. People are nuts. It’d be instant MAGA-flavored Mad Max if they felt like they had an excuse to preemptively defend themselves with their guns across the countryside.
Alabama. Not enough federal money in the world to keep that state afloat.
If they split from the Union, everyone starves.
We’re leaving the east coast? I think they deserve a path too
New England. Maybe with NY, you could have New New.
Yes
I’m cool wit dat
