Not only that Southern States are not uniformly composed. A lot of Republican power in the south comes from gerrymandering the large populations. That whole political border thing is less a thing when a particular group of citizens have just been given the green light to raze the State Capitol.
Seceding states themselves would have massive civil unrest, there’s just zero ways the States themselves would be sustainable. Not to mention that if say Texas tried it, it’s likely drug cartels would join in the looting and destruction of the State. So that State would be fighting something like a four prong war, by itself.
Citizens are a lot more educated today, especially in the large cities. They would absolutely take any secession as permission to burn the whole thing down. And a lot of the seats of Government in these States are in their largest city. Whatever political majority that MTG think she has to support her calls is fiction supported by electioneering.
The US is also drier. The US was very young back then and people didn’t necessarily think of the united country as theirs, rather than their state than today. People still think in states, but universally also see the US as their country.
Maybe, this was a problem last time too, a couple northern states almost had to get checked by the army before the southern ones decided to secede proper
Sigh We do not need American Civil War 2… Electric Boogaloo…
So, I’d think that this one would take a lot less time. I can’t see that a lot of the US army would flip.
Not only that Southern States are not uniformly composed. A lot of Republican power in the south comes from gerrymandering the large populations. That whole political border thing is less a thing when a particular group of citizens have just been given the green light to raze the State Capitol.
Seceding states themselves would have massive civil unrest, there’s just zero ways the States themselves would be sustainable. Not to mention that if say Texas tried it, it’s likely drug cartels would join in the looting and destruction of the State. So that State would be fighting something like a four prong war, by itself.
Citizens are a lot more educated today, especially in the large cities. They would absolutely take any secession as permission to burn the whole thing down. And a lot of the seats of Government in these States are in their largest city. Whatever political majority that MTG think she has to support her calls is fiction supported by electioneering.
The US is also drier. The US was very young back then and people didn’t necessarily think of the united country as theirs, rather than their state than today. People still think in states, but universally also see the US as their country.
Depends who’s president at the time
I mean, would they secede in the first place if it was a Republican?
Maybe, this was a problem last time too, a couple northern states almost had to get checked by the army before the southern ones decided to secede proper