Blue areas have the most robust, diverse economies. Red areas tend to orbit around one or two companies or a military installation.

and a clue is this,which way are the moving trucks headed. Sure as hell is not a Red County.

The big employers here? Health care, mostly Medicare and Medicaid, lots of tire change places and body shops, lots of used car lots, insurance, lawyers with lots of bail bond places, fast food joints, convenience stores, one small defense contractor, an emergency vehicle maker, horse farms, regular farms but none that are agribusiness. There is so much reliance on healthcare and government jobs that Trump screwing with the ACA is going to have a big negative impact, as will reductions in the federal payroll.

There is no financial services other than banks, no broad based technology, no information services startups, no medical research, very little manufacturing, no universities or institutes.

Ageing Populations in rural areas to darn poor to move or are trapped by family obligations. There are some Red State areas that might be expanding,but again those areas are Farm Equipment manufacturing areas. And with the Farm Economy poised to go to hell shortly,who knows how badly they will get punished.

But the people there fell over themselves to vote in Trump and republicans.

of our GDP. It drives me nuts that Democrats don't hammer this home more often. Instead they let Republicans control the narrative that liberal cities are dystopian hellholes. San Francisco and Chicago are more economically vital than ANY red city (by a gigantic mile) yet all I ever hear is how they're filled crime, trash and homeless people.

In addition to what you pointed out, the national economy has historically done better under democratic Presidents, going back to something like 1902. The only republicans that did well during that time were Teddy Rooselvelt and Eisenhower. Both Carter and Clinton beat Reagan on jobs and growth, Clinton hammered him.

With funding provided to relocate people.

Just so that Red America can learn very quickly a very valuable lesson. When I lived in Oregon, I heard of people in the eastern part of the state complaining about Portland and about the federal government. Those folks would have been up shit creek without a paddle had it not been for Portland and the federal government.

Divide it into two countries with abundant coastline and water supplies. It does not matter which side progressives get, we will make it work. Once free of the right, we can fully implement our own immigration, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, women's rights, basically everything that the boat anchor that is the right and Christian conservatives are fighting us over - they can have their own country and impose all the regressive laws there that they want to.

Minor children that follow parents will get one chance to chose the other country once they turn 18. Once they choose, they have to follow the laws of that country.

Just have Blue America consist of every state that has been won by the Democratic presidential candidate in at least 3 of the last 4 elections, or something like that. I get to stay right here in California. New Yorkers get to stay in New York.

Red America will also have some coastline. Just not as much.

Okay, this is never going to happen. But the point is that Red America would be destitute in no time. Not that right wingers would ever acknowledge that without actually conducting the experiment. Even if we did conduct the experiment, I swear that most citizens of Red America would still blame liberals and persons of color for their troubles. Several years ago, a poll of Louisiana Republicans showed that more of them blamed Obama than Bush for the slow response to 2005's Hurricane Katrina. Millions of Republicans are just that ignorant. The stupidity and racism among Republicans is off the charts.

That way issues like transport of people and goods across borders are avoided. A hodge podge of blue and red would be a complete nightmare to administer. People will have to move.

They would have an early twentieth century economy.

That's what he does.