• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The larger the state, the more internal resistance there will be. Not everyone in Texas or Florida will want to secede, and everybody can buy a gun. It’s one thing to gather some pride boys and meal team six larpers in the town square and march around for a bit, but it’s an entirely other thing to defend territory when you’re outnumbered, outgunned, and half the population is against you.

    Oklahoma and Arkansas might be up for it, but there’s no way secessionists hold Miami or Austin.

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      8 months ago

      Not just that, but the economic powerhouses are almost exclusively cities run by Democrats. Even deep red states have Democrats as mayors of their big cities. Texas would have a hard time funding a war if they were trying to do it on the backs of porcupines.

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      8 months ago

      And you have a hitbox that is quite a bit larger than normal, and various health style related illnesses dependent on the free flow of medicine