by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
When I run the Second American Civil War scenario in my mind, I hone in places where there is a real difference of political orientation. So, Virginia is a state that will probably collapse into a Yugoslavia-like situation should there be a 2ACW because it’s actually two states — one Red, one Blue — that hate each other.
If you look at a political map of the United States, there is one other place that definitely seems ripe for implosion if what you believe politically becomes existential — Georgia. I don’t really know anything about the Peach State, but it definitely seems as though there is Atlanta and Everywhere Else in the state. I’ve been to Atlanta once and it’s a MASSIVE cityscape. Huge. Where New York City went up, Atlanta has gone out.
Anyway, my fear is, if there is a 2ACW, Atlanta is going to be a huge fucking Blue spot in a sea of red and we’re all going to learn about the Siege of Atlanta in 50 years from now.
So, you would have a situation where Red Georgia would surround Blue Atlanta in an attempt to destroy it. It sounds very fantastical now, but cold, hard domestic geopolitics tells us that such a nightmare scenario is a very real possibility.
If we’ve gotten to that point, of course, then, well, we’re all fucked.
