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We may be better off as separate countries, but the divide isn't red state vs. blue state. It's urban vs. rural.

I'm in Atlanta, and most of us here wouldn't be happy at all living in a "deep south" country.

But once you surpass roughly 4,000 people per square mile, things inevitably turn blue. Any political heat map shows this. There's a heavy correlation. Surely, urban vs rural is related to red vs blue, no?

Absolutely, which is why breaking up the country geographically wouldn't work. And breaking up the country based on population density seems like a logistical nightmare.

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