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Like neighbor fighting neighbor? I doubt it. The boundaries are less clear and the red states are either on the federal dole or are suppressing the votes of the big blue cities that support their economies.
Who's going to secede? Texas is the only state who might even have a shot at surviving, and as soon as it exterminated or ghettoized Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, its economy would collapse.
I do think we're in for conflict, but my guess it'll mostly be more economic and political as opposed to military.
The religious\Gilead angle is intriguing, I guess, but Atwood had to invent a fertility problem to make that work even as fiction, and really, what we're seeing is probably the last hurrah for the agrarian/Jeffersonian types.
Who's going to secede? Texas is the only state who might even have a shot at surviving, and as soon as it exterminated or ghettoized Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, its economy would collapse.
I do think we're in for conflict, but my guess it'll mostly be more economic and political as opposed to military.
The religious\Gilead angle is intriguing, I guess, but Atwood had to invent a fertility problem to make that work even as fiction, and really, what we're seeing is probably the last hurrah for the agrarian/Jeffersonian types.
