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I mean basically this, entirely unironically.
We couldn't unracist the South.
So, we just have a happy little national divorce, and petition to join Canada, and then also the EU.
Or, form Super-Cascadia, New New England, and The Peoples Republic of Midwestistan.
Texas can annex Oklahoma, everything touching Utah becomes ~~Greater Mormozonia~~ Deseret and the rest can be the Confederacy 2.0.
(Sorry non included red mountain west / central states, you're destined to be failed states due to climate change and depopulation, so you don't get a name... ok, fine: Unorganized Territories)
Then the Chinese do a CIA and send tons of QBZ 192s and such to the 100% guaranteed resistance movements that'll spring up in Jesusland, and maybe if we're lucky, by 2150, we'll have a saying that goes something like "America, once divided must unite; America, once united, must separate."
We can unracist the south, we just have to stop being nice and tolerant. It requires hunting down hate groups, silencing hate speech and destroying cultural iconography that supports hate. Like making it a minor crime to fly a confederate flag or organize a hate group.
This is what the reconstruction was supposed to accomplish, but it failed.
The paradox of tolerance - you must not tolerate the intolerant to preserve tolerance.
If you’re gonna do all that, Blue North may as well just annex Alaska for the sake of contiguity.
Trade for Alberta?
Hey come on now, don't give those weird Alberta separatists any more ideas! There are 100s of them and that is way too many!
I hear good things about Montana from some musicians I now up in Bozeman