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There's no way to split geographically, and it won't be clean.
by moistrobot 5y ago
There's no way to split geographically, and it won't be clean.
- TechBro8615 5y agoWell, one side is contained in a limited number of cities…
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoBut those cities are in every state. I guess we could potentially see the rise of the city state again.
- TechBro8615 5y agoThey also get their food deliveries from the opposing party, so maybe we’ll see something else.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoTrade crosses political boundaries all the time. Farmers want to sell their product, and hungry people want to buy them. This benefits both parties.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoI wouldn't be so sure. People routinely shoot themselves in the foot economically for ideological reasons.
- buu700 5y ago"THIS. IS. BOSTON!"
- charwalker 5y agoAnd make up some 70% of the economy with Democrat voting counties leading the way:https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/election-2020-democrats-republicans-economy.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/election-2020-democrats-repu... 70:30 or more than 2x the GDP generated in blue counties should put the right on notice. Maybe there are wealthy folks in the blue counties that put their cash toward the GOP but it will not sustain them.
- TechBro8615 5y agoI’m not sure how much of that economy would matter in a war time scenario. Most of the industrial factories are outside cities. More sprawling cities like Houston would be a lot more independent than an island like Manhattan, which has only a handful of bridges as land entrances and hardly any heavy industry of its own.