re: If The United States Were Divided Into 4 Countries How Would It Be Divided?

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Sadly, I've considered us splitting up the US due to massive political differences and also because I'm a weirdo. My conclusion was that it would be most fair to split the country from Canada to Mexico so that everyone had cold and warm climates, beaches and mountains.

I think the western half would be more desirable but giving it to the commies means we'd have fewer of them to move.

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I listened to a podcast recently that briefly discussed some of the options. One that stuck out to me as "most probable" in a scenario that seems highly unlikely was kind of re-federalizing our country. Take away a significant amount of Federal power and give the states more leeway to do what they want. An example was: if California wants to have a single-payer healthcare system then they could opt out of Federal Medicare/Medicaid programs and funding and do their own, but Tennessee can do whatever it wants too. If Oregon wanted to ban guns they could.

You'd probably also have re-work our voting system, which needs a re-work anyway right now. The biggest risk would be discord among states and having militia infighting among states that don't get along.

The other options involved regional groupings of states into new federations, something which the Founding Fathers fought against so many years ago in the Federalist papers.

Anyway, it's an interesting topic to think about even if you don't want it to happen at all.