Reply #31: It's more likely that any new borders would be drawn on geographical and population lines. [View All]

[Xithras]

The current state borders are a bit arbitrary and rarely correspond to defensible geography, areas of common economic interest, or to existing population centers. In contrast, if you look at Europe, you'll notice that there aren't many straight lines. European borders generally follow rivers, mountain ridge lines, or encompass populations that wanted to remain together.

When the United States eventually breaks up (and the odds of that are 100%...it may take 20 years or 2,000, but history shows us that no nation lasts forever in a given set of borders), I expect that whatever nations follow it will squabble over their borders until they end up with something that looks more like Europe, and less like the splits along state lines that you have proposed.