Do you believe that, without conscription, the demographics of the US military will continue to be sufficiently "working-class and Southern" for long?

never break apart...go to both sides

Now there's a rub, because I firmly believe that this country is already set against itself to the point where support for only two identifiable 'sides' (as in Civil War I) is impossible.

Try it yourself: Assemble the following factions, belief-systems and "movements" into anything resembling the 1860s alignment: two compact, unified belligerent forces, that held an identifiable land-mass with interior supply-lines:

1. ADL/SPLC
2. Nation of Islam
3. LaRaza
4. BLM
5. 'Antifa'
6. "Open-Borders"
7. Right-to-Life / Right-to-Choose, single-issue zealots
8. Gun-Control / Gun Rights, single-issue zealots
9. The amorphous blob of 'militias' and "hwite supremists"
10. Socialists / Communists / Anarchists / Libertarians / 'Progressives'

I think it's far more likely the US.gov will collapse to the point where it can no longer control the territory. You'll know that's occurred when those troops' paychecks start bouncing or are converted to some digital Zimbabwe-scrip. THEN you'll see whole units deserting and setting up fiefdoms, and a short period of "Mad Max" anarchy.

But once the formerly-united-States falls below the critical mass necessary to repel invaders, a long line of older, harder cultures with centuries-old grudges will move in to pick up the pieces.

Do you believe that, without conscription, the demographics of the US military will continue to be sufficiently "working-class and Southern" for long?

never break apart...go to both sides

Now there's a rub, because I firmly believe that this country is already set against itself to the point where support for only two identifiable 'sides' (as in Civil War I) is impossible.

Try it yourself: Assemble the following factions, belief-systems and "movements" into anything resembling the 1860s alignment: two compact, unified belligerent forces, that held an identifiable land-mass with interior supply-lines:

1. ADL/SPLC
2. Nation of Islam
3. LaRaza
4. BLM
5. 'Antifa'
6. "Open-Borders"
7. Right-to-Life / Right-to-Choose, single-issue zealots
8. Gun-Control / Gun Rights, single-issue zealots
9. The amorphous blob of 'militias' and "hwite supremists"
10. Socialists / Communists / Anarchists / Libertarians / 'Progressives'

I think it's far more likely the US.gov will collapse to the point where it can no longer control the territory. You'll know that's occurred when those troops' paychecks start bouncing or are converted to some digital Zimbabwe-scrip. THEN you'll see whole units deserting and setting up fiefdoms, and a short period of "Mad Max" anarchy.

But once the formerly-united-States falls below the critical mass necessary to repel invaders, a long line of older, harder cultures with centuries-old grudges will move in to pick up the pieces.