Neil Howe: 'Civil War Is More Likely Than People Think'

[Marypoza]

(11-23-2016, 12:59 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(11-15-2016, 11:35 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: RE: Your third paragraph. While it is true that CA does not currently have deployed nukes (a consequence of base closures and realignments during the 90s and 00s), we do have manufacturing facilities that are currently producing ICBMs and planes (e.g. current and potential delivery systems), as well as warhead pits. We control, at least partially, the means of production.

I was thinking recently about how this crisis might involve a nuclear war, and what kind of state nuclear weapons drive.  I was wondering if it would drive successful states to a distributed model, where population was spread across a large geographic area rather than concentrated in highly populous cities.

I just realized the implications for any civil war between red and blue America.  Blue America is highly concentrated in big cities, perfect targets for nuclear weapons.  Red America has a population distributed throughout "flyover country".

While I'd prefer not to have the crisis resolved in a civil war in America, if it comes down to a nuclear civil war between these two sides, I think I have to bet on red America for those simple geographic reasons.

-- don't forget the silos are in flyover country. They are targets too