Sadly, more than a third of people expect civil war.
Keeping a country together ain't worth the price in lives if the difference is over ways folks wish to operate their nation. It is a matter of great fortune that the geography of the flavours of political belief are more-or-less coherent.
Let Jesuslanders do Jesusy things. Let Enlightenlanders do enlightenment things.
There's no common vision here, and only a nostalgic and partisan mythology to look back on. Fork in the road.
But what interesting, contrasting countries might be made in splitting.
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