Should the Northern and Southern U.S. form their own countries?
I think that Northern and Southern cultures are generally fundamentally different and incompatible. Wouldn't all Americans be better served, then, by a secession of one 'side'?
Granted, it wouldn't be an exact divide, so if a Bible-Thumping zealot from Vermont would be happier in the New Southern Nation, he'd have the option to move there.
Look, North and South generally don't like one another, and have different collective views on religion, role of government, America's place in the world, placement of junk cars in front yards, etc., so why not make a break?
The Midwest, aside from oases like Chicago or the Twin Cities, is essentially a colder, treeless extension of the South, so it would of course be part of the southern nation. The coastal NW would go to the North, while its would be a semi-autonomous region answerable, ultimately, to Atlanta.
So-Cal can join up with the north, as they are culturally far more compatible with Boston than Biloxi, despite their southern locale.
Commodities exchanged from country as an alternative of state to state as the alteration you propose would put a heavy burden on society. We would no longer be the strong power in the world that we now are and soon be run over by others and if we are to remain the best nation existing today we need each other and the differences we enjoy.
