Could Wisconsin survive on its own? Anyone inside should be allowed to come out, but could we blockade the borders and prevent any goods from going in? (Cut the electric lines and any pipelines going in, too.) They’d have enough cheese and beer to last for a while, but how long could they (or any state) last on its own?
The have lots of breweries and dairy farms, so I think they would be self-sustaining in beer and cheese. And that’s about 90% of the average local diet right there. They won’t be starved into submission.
Then you would not miss Wisconsin. There is a reason they wear it on their heads to football games, that is the best use for the vast majority of Wisconsin cheese.
True, but would they have the raw materials and infrastructure (especially energy) to keep it up for very long?
Yes, but I wonder what position Canada would take politically (would they want to get involved) or economically (what does Wisconsin have that Canada wants in exchange). But if the rest of the U.S. were to blockade them, that would mean ports, too.
But they will find themselves waging inadvertent chemical warfare on the remainder of the United States. It’s the rare sort of situation that warrants carpet-nuking.
Neither cheese nor beer requires much in the way of high-tech infrastructure. Also, Wisconsin has 3 nuclear power plants, so they can’t be completely cut off from electricity, though maybe they’d end up having to cut power to Milwaukee to keep the breweries producing – a sacrifice that very few people outside of Milwaukee would have a problem with.
As far as Canada goes, well, they don’t have to make all Canadians happy – just keep the border guards drunk and they’re good.
Well, on the one hand, fuck the Camarilla, fuck 'em hard.
On the other hand, as fen to the bone, I get to say that. They might be my severely mentally handicapped cousins, but they’re still family. Erick McDickwicket does not.
