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In the end, perhaps a better bet is to stay put in the good old USA, and work united to replace the out of control Federal government with one true to the Constitution.

I'm talking about cultural values, like self-reliance versus a collective mentality.....stuff like that. I also think that, eventually, there will be significant population shifts between those autonomous regions, as people begin to sort out what kind of regional culture they want to live in. Perhaps those autonomous regions will become loosely allied for purposes of mutual defense and commerce—EXACTLY WHAT THE FOUNDERS ENVISIONED—but they will likely never give big centralized government a chance for to form again.

But the collective mentality region wouldn't be able to exist without a large centralized government because that's the mechanism whereby resources are "fairly" redistributed. Eventually, that redistribution would spread from solely within the collectives to moving wealth from the self-reliance areas into the collectives. Which is close to what we currently have - where the working class are being forced to support those that don't on a larger scale.

Yeah, about that. Secession didn't work out so well the last time it was tried. I don't think the outcome would be much different for a second go-round. Not to mention the fact that Texas and several other states are still taking pay-back from the Reconstruction era. I really don't think that it's a viable option at this point.

Either the Republican party is going to have to figure out how to appeal to more than the same dying group of angry, white, rich guys without compromising its core beliefs, or this country will have to crash head-first into the ground under the intesifying yoke of socialism & then rebuild from below the basement up. And since no one can really forsee or guarantee what that rebuilding would look like, I'd much rather see the first option given a fair & honest shot.