Well, lets get into life after seccession. I figure every state has power plants so we can have electricity. Hospitals for fixing people. I figure most of the old or sickly would leave as they are likely on medicare or at least want government tested medical care. So every state has what is needed for life, but you stand a major chance at having a problem with staffing certain jobs. I am sure you could get general medical people, but what about specialists? Personally I wonder about shipping in fuel or any other goods. I think if there were no other option I could handle farming my food, with a group of others so we could designate jobs and produce more for less hours worked. But if just a few hundred miles away there is the old world as I knew it, with lots of rules and regs though, I don't know what I would do. I can make a living working around 50 hours a week. There are a lot of other hours left in the day to play. Maybe I am not serious enough for what you are discussing, but I wonder if those with elders they care for, or young who have something as simple as asthma have considered life after. It would be nothing like what is there today. And I think you are losing a lot in order to get fewer rules and laws. I recently had lots of problems with my eyes and the solution was expensive. I now consider living in the country a little differently. Being way away from a major hospital with someone capable of not putting me on disability is worth living in urban areas. Like I already said, maybe I am not a candidate for what you propose, but a major loss of options makes me consider bad things that could happen.
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