The more I think about it, the more it makes sense. A realignment of the states by county and city. In 1861, the states had to choose sides and in those days states were very important. Most people thought of them as their own country in some ways. That was the way that Robert E. Lee put it, Virginia was the country of his birth. Some states struggled like Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. Missouri became a Confederate state and the other two stayed in the union.
I can see that the left would use this as a pressure valve. In California, let those eastern counties that have lots of republicans go to Nevada and Arizona. Until they get down to those counties bordering the ocean. Then they have a problem. That's political.
In a military conflict, how long would New York last without daily food shipments from the Midwest? How long would Los Angeles last without water coming down from the mountains? Militarily, there is no good reason to attack either place when you can starve and thirst them out. Which works against the blue states. All that land in the middle. So, if a army of social workers from Boston occupied Kansas City what would they get for their trouble. Besides a lot of dead social workers. Nothing really. The power is not that concentrated in red states like in the blue states.
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