Ann Althouse has a fine blog entry about how various Americans believe that secession might just be a good idea here in the United States of Amerikkka, so let's take it a bit further and imagine such a place, with a map that I've made up:
Peoples' Republic of Moonbattia is comprised of the liberal-leaning states, both East and West coast, joined together with a strip along the Canadian border so that the predominantly blue states of the Midwest can be included. Total gun control, free health care, confiscatory taxes. The whole liberal wet dream. Capital? San Francisco, Chicago and New York will have to fight that out.
Aztlan comprises an area of the Southwest that Hispanics can call home. If they like, they can join their fortune to that of Mexico.
United States of Wingnuttia: filled with conservative, white working class people, with a strong religious foundation. These are the people that Barack Obama characterized as
bitter, clinging to guns and religion. No gun control for law-abiding sane citizens, up to and including automatic weapons. Moral perversion frowned upon. No welfare of any kind.
African America: African-Americans deserve a place of their own, so they can actually have a chance to run a country of their own and not have white people to blame for their failures. Capital: New Orleans, renamed Chocolate City by the first President of African America, Ray Nagin.
Once the borders for Nu-America are drawn, each citizen of the former United States of Amerikkka will be given one year to choose his new country and arrange to emigrate. You'll notice I've drawn Nu America so that everyone gets some coastline.
The fact that people are even contemplating such things as secession tells how fundamentally deep the political divisions have become in America. The savage arguments that take place in blogs and internet forums only exacerbate the problem, I think; not that I would advocate censorship because of it, however.
Update: Instalanche! Thank you, Glenn Reynolds!