To Americans: Do you support breaking up the United States having blue and red states seceding from the union and why?

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/06/americans-national-divorse-theyre-wrong-515443

Democrat/liberal. Yes.

Democrat/liberal. No.

Republican/conservative. Yes.

Republican/conservative. No.

Independent. Yes.

Independent. No.

Non American. Show results.

[HighValue]

You know how they are trying to offer $10k for student loan debt? They could instead offer it for people moving to a different state, that way conservatives could move to red states and liberals could move to blue states. That would help a lot.

Then increase state powers so the federal government can't mandate hardly anything for people in each state on how to live (no covid vaccine mandates, etc.). There could still be international trade and a military to defend the country, but we could have two of each branch of the military so they couldn't mandate that vaccine or push transgender agenda. Have two militaries that cooperate for combat, but have some different standards for each. Red and blue militaries.

If the country actually split/separated, the blue states would be screwed as another user pointed out because geographically the red states are connected and the blue ones would be divided so they could charge huge trade tariffs if they wanted to. The red states have most of the means of production for manufacturing and natural resources too.

[lightbulb27]

id have to think long on it but possibly ok with it. really hard to hold together though.

maybe we do it naturally.. trouble is left keeps invading right areas because they are safer and healthier, until they destroy it... the right leaves, process repeats.

[letuswaltzforthedead]

I think the balkanization of the country is going to be almost inevitable. I think this will probably be true of most countries, not just the United States.
The best option is attempting a reunification of the country under shared beliefs and shared norms. The United States doesn't even have the drive to exist or be the greatest anymore like it did before.

[Anonymous]

People made California and New York so bad they moved in droves to red states and then turned them into blue states, and now they are getting ruined also. The same thing would happen if you had a red country and a blue country. Blue voters need to be destroyed politically for things to get back to normal.

[ObscuredBeyond]

Screw meaningless titles like "left" or "right." How about going back to the law, and doing away with the lawless in power on both ends? That would quickly eliminate the necessity for secession.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Spot on.

[goaded]

90% of the problems come from people saying "both sides" all the time. About everything. There's no half-way between lies and the truth.

[ObscuredBeyond]

@goaded : I consider Marco Rubio to be just as corrupt as any Democrat.

[Dargil]

It would not be red and blue States it would be Islands of political left and political right. For example, Nashville tends to be right leaning but Memphis is seriously left-leaning so Nashville would be an island of conservatism and Memphis would be an island of liberalism.

[TroyDT]

Absolutely not. Just return to federalism and localism. The Federal government has usurped too much power. People in Cheyenne, Wyoming do not want to live like the people in Portland, Oregon, nor vice-versa. People in Newport Beach do not want to live like people in San Francisco.

[KostasKouvalis]

Honestly yes, but it's not that simple. There is too much political divide and despite what the Left wants you to think, history has illustrated time and time again that Diversity always leads to conflict, not success. Different minded people cannot peacefully co-exist together

[MiseriaCantareAFI]

i don't support secession, but i also don't believe that if they do secede, that the reason is, who's leading the country

that's BULLSHIT

I didn't vote for trump, in both elections, and i would never say "its because of who's leading the country"

[AviatorTom]

What makes a nation great is its diversity. There's nothing wrong with different opinions. What has to happen is to get back to working together find that common ground.

[Anonymous]

It is non American so G. My own words and thoughts. USA is becoming separate anyways from liberals. So what would be the difference? Oh, cool pix here from you.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

The military will become instantly far weaker and our economy will be severely impacted.

[Opinion Owner]

Hopefully, Trump can save the day in TWO years.:((

[Cubus]

Blue states would be like Pakistan used to look like in past: disconnected

[007kingifrit]

maybe strategically in the short term, the red states have huge geographic and industrial advantages and would be able to conquer the blue territories easily. then impose a new order by force.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Sounds treacherous.

[007kingifrit]

all warfare is based on deception. your loyalty is to a dead construct. we can rewrite the constitutiont to facilitate a more moral country built on a stronger foundation.

[dustybiker]

It’s childish.

[WhiteBoyChill]

I honestly don’t. It’ll just complicate things

[grega239]

I mean at this point it'd probably be better.

America right now looks like Yugoslavia before it collapsed.

[collie22]

sounds like your suggesting a civil war. God wouldn't be pleased

[msc545]

Hell yes. Those red-state fascist rednecks make me ashamed to be an American.

[Anonymous]

Not sure how I feel about that, so I'm gonna be neutral.