Blue America dissolves union with Red America

[vaskidmark]

http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2014/12/15/nothing-succeeds-like-liberal-secession-blue-america-without-red-america-would-be-a-basket-case-n1931175

The July 4, 2019, ceremony marking the final dissolution of the United States of America was quite amicable compared to the anger and bitterness of the preceding five years. The 2014 election results created a map clearly defining “Red America” and “Blue America,” and it sparked a debate, unlike any in the last 150 years, over whether the United States should remain united. For many in the leftist coastal states – their progressivism constrained by the overwhelming Congressional advantage of the conservative interior states – the answer was, “No.”

As liberal thought leader Michael Tomasky wrote of the South, “Practically the whole region has rejected nearly everything that’s good about this country and has become just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment…. Forget about the whole fetid place. Write it off. Let the GOP have it and run it and turn it into Free-Market Jesus Paradise. The Democrats don’t need it anyway.”

Soon, it became an article of faith within the liberal elite that it was not only their party that did not need the rest of America. Blue America itself, they argued, did not need Red America, economically, intellectually or morally. It was not long until newly-elected Governor De Blasio of New York demanded a national convention to discuss a parting of the ways. The President, her health poor and her heart firmly with the Blue America, half-heartedly tried to stop the movement, but more and more high profile Democrat politicians joined the chorus. The President yielded and called for a “national conversation on the way forward as separate nations.” Red America, furious at her continuation of Barack Obama’s rule by decree and interference in its affairs, agreed to attend.

Two years later, President De Blasio, elected leader of the Democratic States of North America, and President Abbott of the Republic of America, stood together on the platform on the border at St. Louis to sign the Dissolution Pact. The countries split the national debt and apportioned federal assets, while agreeing to temporarily share the currency. They divided the military (along with all nuclear capabilities), but signed a mutual defense agreement. There would be free travel between and through the new nations. “We will remain good neighbors,” President De Blasio remarked, “Even if we are no longer brothers, sisters, or differently-gendered siblings.” President Abbott politely maintained a poker face.

It was on page 2 that I started cheering.

stay safe.

[MillCreek]

Free Market Jesus Paradise?

[Ron]

Free Market Jesus Paradise?

In case you haven't noticed the cultural and economic Marxists hate free markets and the religion of Jesus.

Read = economic liberty and freedom of conscience.

[Balog]

I'd sign up for that.

Very little chance a D will win in 2016 barring epic, Christie/Jeb Bush levels of GOP seppuku. After FDR's reign, the only time the same party has kept the White House three consecutive terms was after Reagan. Obama isn't massively popular and beloved the way Reagan was so he doesn't have the coattails. R'e are a lock unless there's a level of idiocy even Karl Rove would have a tough time generating.

[RoadKingLarry]

Never underestimate the power of stupidity.
I seriously doubt we will ever see another Republican in the white house let alone an actual conservative.

[RocketMan]

Never underestimate the power of stupidity.
I seriously doubt we will ever see another Republican in the white house let alone an actual conservative.

Agreed.

[HankB]

. . .  R'e are a lock unless there's a level of idiocy even Karl Rove would have a tough time generating.

I'm quite sure the main strategy of The Stupid Party^TM will be to prevent a resurgence of the Tea Party and to rein in Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, rather than defeat the Democrats.

[brimic]

I'm quite sure the main strategy of The Stupid Party^TM will be to prevent a resurgence of the Tea Party and to rein in Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, rather than defeat the Democrats.

Its obviously boehner's strategy.

[Scout26]

RE: the OP.  I dreamt last night that it was true, only to wake sorely disappointed...

Oh, how I wish it would happen....

[lee n. field]

   
Blue America dissolves union with Red America

Red State/Blue State doesn't give the true picture.

Google up a red vs. blue election map, at county resolution.   Blue is the urban megapoli and their adjacent vassals.  Red is everywhere else.

[charby]

I seriously doubt we will ever see another Republican in the white house let alone an actual conservative.

We will see plenty of republicans in the white house, but it has been discussed in depth on here why "actual conservative" is a minor and shrinking political thought these days, those days are in the past.

[wmenorr67]

Didn't read the article yet but just curious as to how the country would be split.  As lee stated the country isn't really split east/west or north/south.

How do you let the left have California, Oregon and the New England states.  Hell even New York if you get out of the city is more red than blue.

[brimic]

Red State/Blue State doesn't give the true picture.

Google up a red vs. blue election map, at county resolution.   Blue is the urban megapoli and their adjacent vassals.  Red is everywhere else.

Yes. Even the reddest of red states have blue areas anywhere there is a population center >50,000. Short of the welfare system going TU with a lot of unpleasantness to follow, there isn't any way this is going to change.

[TommyGunn]

I'm quite sure the main strategy of The Stupid Party^TM will be to prevent a resurgence of the Tea Party and to rein in Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, rather than defeat the Democrats.

Uh, THAT has already started ....

[RevDisk]

Red State/Blue State doesn't give the true picture.

Ayep.

By county


By actual population


Purple America. There's a thin strip of hardcore blue from Seattle to southern Texas hugging the border and the east coast Blue U, known as the Sprawl. There's also the Red Crescent of the Mid West into the upper Rockies. Aside from that, it's all purple. If the US cracks, the odds of a peaceful stereotyped Coastals vs Middle America is a pleasant but unrealistic fantasy. Think urban and suburban warfare that'd make Iraq look like a Sunday picnic.

The only stereotypical aspects would be a lot of landlocked red country and a lot of easily seiged blue cities. Neither side holds a strategic advantage.

[vaskidmark]

Didn't read the article yet but just curious as to how the country would be split.  As lee stated the country isn't really split east/west or north/south.

How do you let the left have California, Oregon and the New England states.  Hell even New York if you get out of the city is more red than blue.

The same way Texas outlaws open carry.  It's arbitrary, it's caprecious, and it's "because I said so".

Also, by splitting the left coast from the east coast you wind up with two contries to watch fail, and fail all the quicker.

stay safe.

[brimic]

Purple America. There's a thin strip of hardcore blue from Seattle to southern Texas hugging the border and the east coast Blue U, known as the Sprawl. There's also the Red Crescent of the Mid West into the upper Rockies. Aside from that, it's all purple. If the US cracks, the odds of a peaceful stereotyped Coastals vs Middle America is a pleasant but unrealistic fantasy. Think urban and suburban warfare that'd make Iraq look like a Sunday picnic.

The only stereotypical aspects would be a lot of landlocked red country and a lot of easily seiged blue cities. Neither side holds a strategic advantage.

Hehe. Much of the core infrastructure- railway depots, harbors, power generation, refineries, heavy industry, and warehousing is deep in the blue areas- places that would require something of a military presence to keep operational if things did fall apart.
A balkanized America would be a race to the bottom, not a competition to see who comes out on top.