The Disunited States - Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work

Given the growing intensity of regionally inflected political polarization in the US, many observers have grimly predicted that a divorce between red and blue America could well happen. Yet how likely is this possibility, and would it really produce a beneficial outcome? In The Disunited States, Ryan Griffiths shows why an orderly breakup would be nearly impossible given the complexity of America''s political geography. A bracing rejoinder to the idea that the peaceful breakup of the US is a plausible outcome, this book establishes why the forces that increasingly divide Americans are unlikely to rip the nation apart-and why unity remains the best of all outcomes.