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An alternative to civil war could be peaceful secession followed by voluntary shuffling of populations between the new countries (blues in the red country can move to the blue country if they want to, reds in the blue country can move to the red country if they want to). I have never been comfortable with the idea that a country that was founded by a secessionist act of treason would consider secession and treason in the future to be automatically immoral.
In practice, it's hard to imagine the federal government allowing secession to happen without violence, but it's at least a hypothetically possible alternative.
A few years of the blue country pursuing insane blue policies without any counterweight and the red country pursuing insane red policies without any counterweight might cause at least some partisans to reconsider their ideas.
Of course it would also do a lot of damage to the former US' hard power in the world, and a significant amount of damage to the soft power too. But even for people who care about those things, would that actually be worse than staying in a failed marriage? The economies of the new countries would likely not be as strong as the former economy of the united country, at least not for a while. But neither would be in any danger of being invaded as long as both got some nukes. Splitting the nukes would be another thorny subject, however.
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