There won’t be any civil war or states leaving. There will be some moves to decrease some of the anachronisms of the Constitution and reduce the outsize influence rural areas have on National policy and the judiciary. There will be some malcontents but there always is.
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Oh yes. I would definitely start with the metaphorical gun cocked at the beginning of every Congress.
Think about supply and demand.
Currently, “red states” provide the beef to the vast majority of the customers of beef across the country.
Now what will happen when 60-70% of those customers vanish? Supply goes up, demand goes down. Prices bottom out. Food goes to waste.
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Same! If this administration won’t git er dun then we’ll keep voting until we get the wild eyed Marxists we’ve been promised.
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Oh no. It’s not about Judgeships. It’s about what you would do with the judgeships.
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Political agreements can be crafted that squeeze the valuable oil exports of our foreign adversaries.
Tariffing, negotiating, or sanctioning mere beef into oblivion would be much easier. Most the capital necessary to do that falls on one side of this hypothetical border.
There are other people in the world than you who will buy my beef.
How would get it to them?
Not many international ports in Red State Land.
You’re absolutely right. Food prices would bottom out drastically in the areas of the country that produce it.
But what would happen to those prices in your areas when there was none?
You’re missing the point.
You may be willing to shoot yourself in the knee to hurt the libs, but do you really think the rest of Red State Land is going to be behind you?
But I will no longer belong to your country.
Since you won’t be eating my beef there are other people in the world who will want my beef and you will have no say in who I sell my beef to.
and how will you get that beef exported…
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You don’t know your geography, sir.
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Texas has ports. Florida has ports. You really need to look at a map and see the sea of red that covers most of the United States. You all aren’t going to have much land mass when we split. In fact you all aren’t going to have much room to grow anything.
and pretty much all of those ports are connected by rail lines thats cross blue areas. wouldnt be hard at all for those blue areas to stop rail traffic
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That’s where you’re making a mistake. Your beef could be doomed to rot in refrigerated containers, no matter where you send it.
It doesnt take much force to accomplish this, just capital, and pen strokes.
Florida isn’t a “red state”. What makes you think they’d be on “your side”?
Texas ports represents about 5% of international shipping in and out. Add Georgia, the Carolinas, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, you get to 20%.
The rest are all in blue states. Just California and New York represent more than 50%.
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Of the top twenty ports in America, 4 are in “red states”.
