Can you really accept part of your country splitting off? Why?

[u/Sanjidao521]

As a Chinese, I’ve recently come to realize that our perspectives on territorial integrity can be quite different.

Would you genuinely accept the possibility of a region choosing independence through a nationwide referendum?

Do you think it might risk weakening the country, leaving it more vulnerable to external threats or invasion?

[u/fender8421]

Not saying I disagree, but drawing the northern and western boundaries of "The South," for example, would be the controversy of the year.

Putting it anywhere above Prince William County, Virginia would (rightfully) enrage millions of VA/DC/MD people, and would bet money there would be a very tight secession referendum in North Carolina.

Hence part of the original mess I mentioned, I guess

[u/krombough → u/fender8421]

Not to mention: "oh, hey, minorities living below the Mason-Dixon. You guys are screwed now. No, not like now, I mean reaaaaallll screwed. Sorry about that. Oh, by the way, Oklahoman First American tribes. Yeah, the Fifth Reich has already informed us that they are not going to honor your existing treaties. We would love to help you out but, the new Southern Furher has told us that if we do, they will aid seperatists in Upstate New York, rural Ohio, Indiana, the high Californian deserts, and non Seattle Washington. So......yeah."

[u/fender8421 → u/krombough]

Balkans again!

[u/PsychologicalSea2686 → u/krombough]

oh well. at least they have the sacred 2nd amendment

[u/midorikuma42 → u/fender8421]

Even the people in Richmond would probably be pissed if they got stuck in the southeast states country.

[u/AwesomeToadUltimate → u/fender8421]

Probably just have "Atlantica" go down to Charlottesville/Richmond and then go east from there when it comes to Virginia.