Aren't we just seeing states become as bifurcated as the entire nation. I am from "upstate" NY and for as long as I can remember we have wished for the state from Poughkeepsie on down to be severed from us and set adrift in the atlantic.
We will more of this as the partisan lines are drawn thicker and thicker and we realize that there is no talking to the guys on the "other side".
Even Texas has Austin.
Yeah, its a city mouse vs country mouse thing. Simply but what the people in the cities want isn't the same thing as what the people in rural areas want. But the Cities think the rural areas should help subsidize them. In Colorado the State passed two taxes to build different Stadiums in downtown Denver. Stadiums that people on the Western Slope would seldom even have the chance to visit. We pay taxes to maintain roads- when the roads in front of our Houses are gravel and usually maintained more often by the people using them than the govt. The Article talks about the "Something for Nothing Libertairnism" but really the problem is - the rural areas are paying for something, but getting nothing. They have to support an agenda they abhor, pay for improvements they will seldom if ever use, and then have their inalienable rights trampled on and be called racist hicks if they complain.
Since we are two distinct groups with different needs we really should have the right of self-govt. But as you suggest, they aren't willing to talk about it. This author just dismisses the grievances as well, and they simply won't engage in a constructive conversation on how to resolve them, responding instead with "tough titty. Deal with it." So we will. Our way.
If that means the liberal States become City States, so be it. The Liberals simply aren't the producers. 90% of them live in the cities, and of those, 1/2 are non-contributing zeros on welfare. They think their food and fuel come from the store, and depend on the EBTs to by them. When push finally comes to shove, they will find themselves in fragile little city ecosystems suddenly deprived of needed resources and surrounded by heavily armed and pissed off people who would willingly and happily drive them into the Sea. They really are clueless as to how many people are ready to get on with the divorce, peacefully or no. They just can't conceive that anyone wouldn't WANT to be part of their tribe of "cool kids" or not WANT to live in the city. They figure we are out here because we are dumb and don't know any better. If you are in a city, its time to get out, because otherwise you are going to find yourself on the wrong side of enemy lines.
