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Some uprisings, yes. There are some organized and armed groups who are frustrated with the government we have now and who feel disenfranchised. But a Civil War requires a substantial portion of the population to actively support secession and to be willing to go to war to enforce that secession. That requires a tremendously strong identification with a particular region of the country, more than an identification with an ideology. Our society is so fluid and mobile that the strong regional ties people once felt are significantly weaker. The entire Red/Blue divide has actually little meaning in people's everyday lives, because the Red/Blue descriptor applies to national elections held for one office. Take it down to state level, and you have a political situation that is much more complex. Blue Dog Democrats, RINO's and so on, actually demonstrate what demographers will tell you over and over and over, Red versus Blue is more accurately describing rural versus urban areas in our society, and the political fallout from the differences between the two.
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I believe, honestly, it is.
Anyone want to DISCUSS it (without the usual personal insults from some)?
Just for the sake of argument, the only way that this is possible is if a geographical area, as others have suggested, has enough members who feel they should separate to a sufficient degree to actually do so. What this would actually mean is that a broad swath of the middle of the country, from, say, Texas to the Dakotas and a little bit E. and W. of that, could conceivably say that they wanted to be their own thing. But even within that, you would have problems. Austin, TX, for example, would not be on board with that, and neither would NOLA. In reality, even if it were possible, there would have to be a significant amount of work done to convince people in urban areas why they should unite with people with essentially rural interests. Don't see that happening in my lifetime. This is not the 1860s, nor even the 1960s.
After being in Political power for decades-from Nixons 'southern strategy'
which was primarily angry white people seeking 'white power'-it may be very premature with a diminishing power base electorally in the south and great plains to see the GOP regain its past glories-the demographics are simply not there. I cannot see the blue states of the north east/west coast and upper mid west support radical extremist right wing candidates who preach division, racism, and nihilism to be able to carry an electoral majority with their lack of ideas and not so subtle racism.
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