If the US split into 2 countries along party lines who would do better?

[Pontiuth Pilate]

Oh, I thought you meant splitting into two countries according to voting patterns, with current economic conditions.

Of course in that case it's a nobrainer; the cities are the engines of this country and they vote overwhelmingly Democratic. And, at a rough guess I'd say 60-80% of GDP is generated in blue states. Just NY and CA alone would make a great nation - and don't think CA doesn't have the farming capacity to feed itself. NY would have to import, though.

Democrats(mostly) are the ones that distrust the military and view it chiefly as a testing ground for social experiments

Like desegregation?

Check the census numbers, people. Which states are gaining, and which states are losing population? There's your answer, people.

Which are the first states to recover from economic hardship? Which states are gaining jobs fastest? A corollary to that, which are gaining jobs fastest relative to population growth?

If the Reds don't rank high in those questions, then all they are gaining is welfare recipients.

Heck, I'm not even counting the fact that the folks with higher education live and work in cities - therefore in the new Blue country.

Incidentally, California nearly has a 50/50 party split. It just doesn't appear that way because liberals have big mouths

You're way off, the split in the legislature is 66/33 and voting margins are similar - for example see our last Senatorial race. California is getting more Republican though.

 

[GerrardCapashen]

Well that is just plain unfair, a big part of the Republican values come from wide open spaces and the natural resurces/nuclear weapons they contain.

Now that explains a lot.

 

[Sims2789]

The problem being that the Liberal areas of California depend on the conservative parts of the country for much of their prosperity.

No we don't. The Central Valley depends on our tax dollars to keep their water cheap. We could import food if we wanted to. It would hurt us economically, but not as much as it would hurt eastern California to have no one to sell their produce to.

 

[h4ppy]

No we don't. The Central Valley depends on our tax dollars to keep their water cheap. We could import food if we wanted to. It would hurt us economically, but not as much as it would hurt eastern California to have no one to sell their produce to.

And where exactly will your water come from?

 

[HighlandWarrior]

the reps would destroy the dems.

If the zeropean model is so great, why are france and germanys economies so crappy and unemployment so high? and if the dems decided to follow this "great" model why would it be different?

 

[Louis XXIV]

I don't think Blue America would so precisely follow Europe's model anyway. It would generally trend in that direction, but Europe became that way because of centuries of extremes.

 

[The Yankee]

Depends on what you define as "better." The Republicans seem to have more servicemen in their ranks than Democrats. However, Democrats also control a lot of the economic engines. Plus, New Yorkers can always fight nasty bloody battles in the subway!

But...would liberal and conservative Democrats and Republicans get along in their own big tents?