OK, not really. But....
Primarily “Red States,” right? The article cites Virginia, Arizona, Oklahoma and Montana, South Carolina, as harboring some dissidents willing to wield the legal shears that would carve their silhouette out of the map. We could probably count on Alaska and most if not all of the previously vanquished Confederacy.
While this would certainly have an effect, how would this HURT the rest of The Union. Would the loss of those states work out to a net reduction in our GDP? Would coast-to-coast trucking face highway piracy fostered by the rogue governments of the destitute (but ‘free’) rebel states? Would The Union bother going to war this time or instead show them the door, “Mind the step, come back any time, oh, and give us back our currency.”
Your thoughts?