> Also I'm not sure what the reason you insist that people you clearly hate must continue to live with you
I don't hate anyone, and I don't insist anyone “live with me”. The U.S. does not have exit controls nor do I favor imposing them. OTOH, the primary cleavage lines in the country aren't geographic (whike there is a geographic correlation, it's weaker than at any point in history), so any separation of poltiies means (even ignoring the multidimensional nature of the divided that make this impractical even before considering geography) either forcing large numbers of people into polities less friendly to themselves than the current common polity or mass dislocation.
> There is the obvious fact that you can continue to control them and demographically dominate them at the polls (thanks to immigration).
The idea that currently dominant faction is advantaged by immigration is...interesting. But not particularly well connected to reality for many of the major divides at issue.
> If they separate from you then you cannot do that, also you would become a very tiny minority in the multicultural society that remained
In a separation along any of the key cleavages, everyone would be part of a larger (proportional) group within the resulting poltiies than the source polity, so that doesn't even make sense.
> My assumption is that you are white.
Well, maybe you shouldn't make stupid assumptions.
> I suspect the opposite, the trend is getting worse and relations are becoming a powderkeg.
I think there's a fairly good chance of a near term crisis and it's clear that the short-term trend is bad, as it has often been within the longer-term improvement. OTOH, The major progress has always come in the context of crisis periods.
I don't hate anyone, and I don't insist anyone “live with me”. The U.S. does not have exit controls nor do I favor imposing them. OTOH, the primary cleavage lines in the country aren't geographic (whike there is a geographic correlation, it's weaker than at any point in history), so any separation of poltiies means (even ignoring the multidimensional nature of the divided that make this impractical even before considering geography) either forcing large numbers of people into polities less friendly to themselves than the current common polity or mass dislocation.
> There is the obvious fact that you can continue to control them and demographically dominate them at the polls (thanks to immigration).
The idea that currently dominant faction is advantaged by immigration is...interesting. But not particularly well connected to reality for many of the major divides at issue.
> If they separate from you then you cannot do that, also you would become a very tiny minority in the multicultural society that remained
In a separation along any of the key cleavages, everyone would be part of a larger (proportional) group within the resulting poltiies than the source polity, so that doesn't even make sense.
> My assumption is that you are white.
Well, maybe you shouldn't make stupid assumptions.
> I suspect the opposite, the trend is getting worse and relations are becoming a powderkeg.
I think there's a fairly good chance of a near term crisis and it's clear that the short-term trend is bad, as it has often been within the longer-term improvement. OTOH, The major progress has always come in the context of crisis periods.