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Originally Posted by djtestudo
Bingle, it's very simple. If a state were to seceed, it would be invaded and brought back into the US unless it could fight off the US military. A state like Maine wouldn't be particularly hard to bring back, unless it joined with Canada or something like in Halx's map.
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On the contrary - I think it would be impossible, politically, for the US to invade Maine - all the more so because it would be such a one-sided battle.
The government can barely get a majority of support to invade Iraq - there's no way they would get popular support for the invasion of part of our own country. They would definitely use all sorts of political pressure to avoid the secession, but I don't think invasion would be a viable option in the case of Maine.
Also, even though it's true that it's mostly urban areas that vote democratic (and it looks mighty impressive to compare square footage of red and blue areas - if acreage could vote, you'd have a winner) if you look at the results of the popular vote for the last election, it's not that overwhelming of a landslide.
Note that I'm not necessarily pushing for secession - as I said, unless something major changes, I don't think people really want that. I just think it's interesting to consider in the context of modern times - I think it would be almost impossible to have a civil war now, unless it started as an armed insurrection. However, it would be equally impossible for the US to let a state leave...
Bingle