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That was the goal. We don't vote for fascists, so we need to be removed. Forcing us to flee is the first step, and when that fails to eliminate us completely they'll start implementing further measures to make it impossible for us to vote or live in red states.
Interestingly, that also forces us to live and vote in the states we flee to, making them less red as we'll obviously never miss another election after becoming political refugees.
Balkanization.
Definitely gives rise to conditions for conflict and civil war, when areas have been depopulated of anyone who disagrees. Unfortunately for many of these red states, they're landlocked and low GDP so it's a losing proposition either way. They wanted the South to rise again, but apparently didn't learn any lessons since last time, content to be kings of a failing depressed hateful anthill.
The civil war was similar in that way, they were landlocked with low population and poor access to resources back then too. A losing proposition from the start.
It's interesting how "minor" conditions can have huge effects on conflicts. Apparently the South thought they could leverage their cotton ("cotton is king") and use it to convince England/Europe to back them, but not only did Confederate diplomacy suck but other countries did the math and decided they didn't need Southern cotton bad enough to piss off the Union.
It seems these guys and their spiritual descendents have a long proud history of overestimating their importance and worth while antagonizing everyone else and behaving like idiots.