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Look at the vast size of the US, and the multiple geographical barriers in the way of an 1860s type civil war. There is no modern equivalent of the Confederacy.
by gregjor 5y ago
Look at the vast size of the US, and the multiple geographical barriers in the way of an 1860s type civil war. There is no modern equivalent of the Confederacy. Even tens of thousands of angry armed people would be either too geographically dispersed to cause too much trouble, or concentrated in a few places making them easy for the military to put down. Despite what you might see on the news the US is not on the verge of civil war.
Widespread civil unrest and violence, maybe, but unlikely that would turn into a continent-wide war or even last very long. Even during the last actual civil war commerce in the North went on more or less normally.
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- throwaway6532 5y agoA civil war would look more like The Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 90s than 1860s type conflict.
- gregjor 5y agoArea of Northern Island: 5,456 square miles. Area of United States: 3.8 million square miles. Vast differences in population, ethnic and religious diversity, and the fact that the United States successfully expelled the British in the late 1700s. Whatever problems the US has today they are not based on religious differences or ongoing colonialism. Nor can internal rebels focus their energies on a couple of cities within a small nation.