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Not just the economy. You'd also need high level US military leaders to go insubordinate, voluntarily ignore their chain of command, and "donate" the assets of
by makerbraker 10y ago
Not just the economy.
You'd also need high level US military leaders to go insubordinate, voluntarily ignore their chain of command, and "donate" the assets of the US armed services to the Republic of California.
Texas is the only state that could probably put up a fight, but it'd be very ugly and very bloody.
Secession almost always equals war.
I think the folks advocating for secession trivialize the fact that the end result is armed conflict and not knowing which side your neighbor is on.
And Brexit is not precedent whatsoever -- Britain can exit from the EU because there was no large amount of shared military/defense assets based within the UK, and the EU is primarily an economic cooperation effort.
- CuriouslyC 10y agoI have no doubt that many military leaders would defy commands to kill non-aggressors that they have a sense of kinship with. Unlike the civil war, we don't have the moral high ground provided by slaver to drive men to kill their brothers. I suspect that the federal government would try to negotiate a secession that gave them some power over the newly formed nation, in order to "give the people what they want" while maintaining the status quo as much as possible.
- douche 10y agoAt least the southern states in 1861 had the advantage of providing a large percentage of the prewar officer corps and West Point graduates, as well as graduates of the other military academies like VMI and the Citadel. The demographics of the current US military are not favorable for liberal coastal regions thinking of secession.