Around thirty years ago my aunt married a Ukranian man (immigrated in his youth, I believe). Not a Soviet man, a Ukrainian one. And I've known people who identified as English, not British. It wasn't a political statement, it was just a natural answer. In a place where the citizen identity is first the subset, these breakups don't strike me as surprising. Even with all the dissent during the Bush and Obama elections, I haven't seen anyone identifying as a Dixie or Cascadian or even Georgian or Washingtonian. So will the US survive the 2016 election? Yes. Will it last forever? No. Will it break up in my lifetime? Probably not.Who would have imagined 30 years ago the breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or, even five years ago, of the United Kingdom?
I haven't seen anyone identifying as a Dixie