Important Takeaways:
- An American Secession? It’s Not That Far-Fetched
- Texit. The new California republic. Polls in the U.S. show strong support for splitting the nation along blue-red lines.
- A recent University of Virginia poll found that 52% of Donald Trump voters now “somewhat” favor Republican-controlled states “seceding from the union to form their own separate country,” while 41% of Joe Biden voters adopt the same stance about blue states.
- Think of the Soviet Union, which splintered three decades ago. Czechoslovakia was created in October 1918, amid the ruins of the Hapsburg Empire, then in 1993 split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic
- Norway was united with Denmark for four centuries, until in 1814 it was instead joined with Sweden.
the Irish independence struggle that has played a bloody role in… history - Plainly, no secession in the U.S. is imminent. But such a development has become conceivable, as it certainly was not as recently as the turn of the millennium. Its cost, were it to come about, would be vastly higher not merely for the U.S. but for the entire Western world than any mere breakup of the U.K., or even of the European Union.
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