Centre on Constitutional Change
02 October 2025
The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won’t Work
There is a growing interest in secession, or what some refer to as a national divorce, between Red and Blue America. Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for it on multiple occasions, there is a developing literature on the topic, and, according to one Axios poll, 20% of Americans support a national divorce. Read Ryan Griffiths on his new book, The Disunited States, in which he examines what a project of American secession would look like, and why America is ill-suited for a peaceful national divorce.
