While one half of citizens believe the other half are Nazi racists, their counterparts believe they are totalitarian communists. This appears to be an irreparable divergence not seen since the Civil War. While current demographics blur the geographic lines between them, some definitive resolution of this schism is inevitable. If so, what form is the most likely outcome?
There will be no schism while one group holds all the industry.
It's urban vs rural and rural would get crushed.
Maybe the urbans would starve but not before they wiped out rural resistance.....
THe strength of the state means civil war is almost an impossibility in reality tho. Our last one happened only because the Southerners didn't have a good grasp of the logistics of war and it was a much better bet than a modern "neo confederacy" without the slavery would be. Or some west coast break away state trying to get awya from Trump or whoever.
Only some sort of split in the armed forces could cause a real civil war. They control all the relevant power in this conversation.