From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: Response to Werner (Sorry)
Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1580
Posted: Sat Apr 23 09:49:22 1983
Received: Sat Apr 30 00:46:00 1983
References: houti.259

I, for one, would not be surprised to see the US fragment into two or
more nations if the USSR was not providing an external opponent. 
There are some fairly strong regional stress at work in the US
(see "The Nine Nations of North America" [sorry, no author] for
details).  I imagine that the Spanish speaking southern rim of the US
might be as inclined to separatism as Quebec is in Canada, but its
anyone's guess as to whether separation would actually occur.
(excuse me, that should be stresses in line three)
	-Jeffrey Soreff (hplabs!soreff)