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If everything was started from scratch tomorrow, the likelihood of present day California and Texas naturally ending up together in the same nation is pretty much zero, IMHO.
Those two are kept together by pretty much a country-sized version of a Sunken Cost Falacy.
One can’t even count on language or culture as a unifying element, otherwise the whole of Latin America would be 2 countries, Brasil & Everybody Else.
Your “you’re not with us so you must be against us” is an old Fascist trope.
Might want to tone down that rabid tribalism as your “arguments” are awfully close to the other guys style of argumentation.