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I generally agree with you that we are probably going to see increasing self-segregation in the coming decade. This will be interesting to observe in more ethnically and racially mixed regions of the country - particularly the Sun Belt. Ironically, the most segregated cities in the country are mostly up north. Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Philly, Cleveland, D.C., Milwaukee, etc. - the only major exceptions in the south are Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Saint Louis, and New Orleans. The Southwest - Texas, New Mexico and Arizona specifically - are quite a bit more heavily mixed and are less tense overall, save for the U.S.-Mexico border regions. Most issues here are an import by people moving in from outside the region, such as white Californians and New Yorkers. It's going to be interesting to see the varying levels of self-segregation in different parts of the country. It probably won't be as intense in the Southwestern states (we're all armed anyway).
As for whether or not people - specifically middle and upper-class whites - are willing to give up luxuries for safety and the 'simple life' out in the country, I seriously doubt that. They aren't Russians who will easily sacrifice everyday luxuries left and right to endure through a difficult time. They will likely cling to their McMansions and superficial creature comforts and try to maintain that typical borderline-hedonistic way of life where they bend the environment to their whims, rather than adapt to true 'simple living'. They don't plan their communities with any long-term sustainability in mind. Maintaining vegetable gardens is foreign to them. Being good stewards of the land is foreign to them. Respecting the resources they have to manage responsibly is extremely foreign to them. Hell, in many Dallas subdivisions people will pay migrants to put up their Christmas lights for them. It's one thing I've increasingly come to recognize about certain strands of Americans - they want the illusion of simple, country living without any of the sacrifice and work involved in actually living it, maintaining it, and adapting to the natural environment around them. If everybody wants to live the 'country lifestyle' there won't be any countryside left, because it will just be turned into sprawling subdivisions, see Texas and Arizona. They move to the mighty Southwestern crag lands and deserts, demanding oak trees, green lawns, forested golf courses, and so on - water availability and energy costs be damned. They establish tyrannical H.O.A's and forbid so much as a local cactus or agave species from visibility.
That's why you're see neighborhoods like this pop up in places like Phoenix where the average rainfall is just 9 inches per year - the concept of xeriscaping is practically anathema to them. My father always used to tell me to think past my nose. These people refuse to do that. Maybe all this chaos will be the kick in the balls these people need to shake them out of their suburbanized haze, but I doubt it. I hope I'm wrong.
As for Russia, they're (mostly) a paper tiger. Aside from their nukes they don't really have the infrastructure or economic power to be a credible military threat to the USA. China is just as much a threat to them - if not more so, since they actually share a border and China really likes claiming chunks of other countries as 'ancient Chinese lands'. China is the real external threat and I'd much rather we ally with Russia and use that as leverage against the CCP. The nostalgic Cold-War era Deep State boomers in power probably won't allow that, though. One can dream.
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