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Originally posted by Phaenx
A civil war between conservatives and liberals? That one's easy, conservatives like guns, we'd have that won in a few days. That's without military intervention though, but even then most of the U.S. military is conservative, about 25/1 I think the ratio is. So with them, liberals would be crushed almost immediately.
Between socialists and everyone? Most socialists are lefties, and there's not as many of them as there are liberals. This one is even shorter then the first.
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The military is apolitical by design. As for voting patterns, The military as a whole votes Republican 2-to-1, enlisted men and women vote Republican 3-to-2, while the ratio among officers is about 8-to-1.
Any hypothetical civil war, though, is going to be won by whoever is being rebelled against (and not the rebels), because they are going to be the ones with the Constitution and the US military behind them.