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HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:
I suspect that these historical facts, or at least the popular impression of them, have persuaded many people that another US civil war like the first one is effectively impossible.
There is no clear geographic divide within the US like there was in 1861 between slave states and free states. Instead, Americans are deeply divided on an array of political issues but are interspersed geographically. Even many states that are described in US political discourse as “red” or “blue” are, for the most part, almost evenly split in political terms.
Prior to the US civil war, states really were semi-sovereign and the federal government was vastly smaller than it is now. It was, at the time, possible to imagine group of states cooperating to challenge federal authority, because the balance of power between the component state and the federal government was not nearly as lopsided as it is today.
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