I recently read Eleven Nations (which I recommend), and in the epilogue, the author sounds quite hopeless. He does not believe the USA, or Mexico, or Canada wil

I recently read Eleven Nations (which I recommend), and in the epilogue, the author sounds quite hopeless. He does not believe the USA, or Mexico, or Canada will survive the 21st century in their current forms/borders. Imagine, for example, that California secedes (or more to the point, the northern California coast secedes). What would Seattle and Portland do? How about Vancouver? After all, Vancouver has far more in common culturally and historically with San Francisco than it does with, say, Nova Scotia. And why would LA and San Diego join San Francisco's revolution? Their dominant culture has more in common with Tijuana. Part of the author's argument is how much sense it would make for what is currently northern Mexico and southwestern USA to break off and become an independent nation together.