r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/Snow_source District Of Columbia 1d ago

I was thinking the endgame here from the current regime is to balkanize the US between Blue and Red states.

I really don't want to be right.

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u/CanadianTrashInspect 1d ago

It doesn't even make sense because the divide is very much rural vs urban. Even California and New York - which are held as examples of big Blue States - are 38% and 43% Republican.

Both those states have extremely red regions outside of the cities. So it's unlikely that those people would side with the Democratic state government over the Republican feds.

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u/dimcarcosa 1d ago

This. People keep acting like each state is fully homogenized along political lines. Red and blue states done truly exist in such a blatant dichotomy, only red and blue regions within states exist on anything resembling that granular of a divide.

Sure there's a tendency for states to lean one way or the other due to political influence and results, but with the exception of the states with sparse populations most states are big blue cities, purple metro areas and red rural regions.

How do you balkanize that? I'm not even sure it's possible to divide up our country along those political lines. We're too blended politically as a people in terms so where we live even if within those political stances were the most polarized we've possibly ever been due to the efforts of those who benefit from that division.

That's the paradox of our country as it stands right now and I don't know how we deal with much less how any kind of dividing the country up into new countries/leaving the US to join whomever would even remotely look like.

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u/StarHelixRookie 1d ago

 How do you balkanize that?

India / Pakistan basically