Is there any feasible way for the USA to break up as a country? The past few years have shown that there are some disparate opinions on issues like politics, economics, and the direction the country is taking as a whole within the US. It seams to me that many of these differences can broadly be divided by state lines. Large countries have balkanized before, and the US has several states that can feasibly succeed as a country on their own. With a growing divide on opinions between the population, could separation movements gain traction? As far as I know secession of a state or a block of states is illegal by US law. However are there plausible ways the United States could break up within our lifetimes?