I still can't believe he got away with this. The US is truly fucked.
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Valid. I wouldn't be surprised to eventually see a Balkanization of America. It's so huge, with widely varying climate and terrain, that there are wide swathes of population that have totally different needs.
The Northeast and West Coast would be the most likely breakaways.
Water supply is dire. The Colorado river is oversubscribed and most of the aquifers are being sucked dry for unsustainable agriculture. For the west coast (California) to break away it needs to take most of the Colorado river watershed with it. That means Utah, Colorado, and Arizona are critical.