 [Mises Institute] Last month, the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia released a new study which showed that, at least among those polled, "roughly 4 in 10 (41%) of Biden and half (52%) of Trump voters at least somewhat agree that it's time to split the country, favoring blue/red states seceding from the union."
Moreover, majorities in both groups agreed there are "many radical, immoral people trying to ruin things" and that "it is the duty of every true citizen to help eliminate the evil that poisons our country from within."
On might conclude that people who think that things are generally going well in a country aren't so concerned with "the evil within" that they think it's time to "split the country."
It seems that President Biden has been unable to "unite" the country after all, in spite of his promises that it's "time to heal in America" and that he will "be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify." Rather, it appears the country embraces a hard divide over a variety of issues, with vaccine mandates and parental rights in public education being only the most current ones.
At this point, there's no reason to believe these divides are simply going to go away. Secession is likely to become even more mainstream, as has been occurring in recent years, and as the old "liberal consensus" of the mid-twentieth century recedes ever more into the distant past.
Rather, experience increasingly points toward separation, even if such events seem far off. In the real world, after all, major political changes can come suddenly and in unexpected ways. In 1987, most Soviets still assumed the USSR would continue to exist for many more decades—if not centuries. Because of this, now is the time to begin asking the difficult questions about secession and how military and financial questions can be addressed.
Considering all this, we see three main reasons why it is increasingly unwise to ignore secession as a serious possibility. 
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