The problem is how does the liberal part survive without being subsidized by the conservative part? I don't see any problem with the conservative part, if fact probably doing well, it would likely re-awaken rural America.
That's why it can't be done peacefully.
Oh, by the way, NYT, probably most of the suburbs (and even some small cities, especially ones in the south and west) would want to be with the conservative part, they will get milked to death if they get put with the liberal urban part. So 15% of the land mass is unlikely. Probably like 5% for liberal-land.
Liberal-land can't stand alone for long.
If this really happened and I found myself in Libtard country I would sell fast, and I am sure some rich liberal would come and buy me out.
But that is the thing, the libtards only exist within city states. If this happened they would be under martial law within years, because Conservative America's first act would be a 40% tariff on on electricity, food, fuel, and water for the City States.The cities may have more wealth but that is easily extractedwhen the countryside is no longer controlled by them...
Oh, forgot you needed us to produce for ya, did ya? Guess what? Without the efforts of those delporable, stupid,, mostly white flyover country people, your cities will die..
Really, at least in the west, Water would be the biggest point of contention. Even if you agreed they would get what they are getting now,for what they are paying now, growth in the cities would soon have them trying to dry up farmland. Its happening all along Colorado's front range, and in 10-15 years I will not be at all surprised to find my 1/2 share of Ditch water is worth more than all of the rest of my property combined.
So no, this isn't ever going to happen, but it is the only way to avoid a civil war. Te libtards can't live and let live, they can't play by the rules, and so in the end bullets will fly.