Originally Posted by Blue 
The asterisks were supposed to be in a circle but alas, they collapsed.
Well, I'm not writing the United States off yet, let's say.
The secession talk makes for a certain amount of useful rhetoric, (As well as ways to quietly pass laws that say a state like Georgia will ignore Federal civil rights law if they feel like it, now that they can't use their 'permanent majority' to interfere in more liberal states,) ...but these secessions aren't going to happen.
The fact is, there's a perception cultivated in the media that red-state tax money subsidizes the blue-state cities, but it's really the other way around.
'Private enterprise' may find the 'small government' line very useful, but it's not really private enterprise. They use public roads and infrastructure basically for free. Especially without agricultural and infrastructure subsidies, a lot of the Red states would quickly find themselves exporting resources, and that's not a winning equation.
So, it's not gonna happen.