The cultural divide

The map above shows states where abortion clinics figure to be shut down if Roe v. Wade is no longer a factor. But it also gives a sense of the striking cultural divide of the “United States” of America.

In other blog posts I’ve written about why I think the South had every right to secede in 1860 (and everyone would have wound up better off in the long run):

https://stevenwelzer.medium.com/this-time-let-em-secede-10000fdccb59

https://stevenwelzer.medium.com/im-one-of-the-few-people-north-of-the-mason-dixon-line-who-says-we-should-have-let-the-south-f4f8c464b3f5

https://stevenwelzer.medium.com/not-what-you-were-taught-in-school-1f20d1745c27

Under conditions of (hopefully, future) bioregional sanity, what now is the continental United States would probably be divided into ten or twelve sovereign bioregional commonwealths.