If Civil War broke out in this country again, where would the lines be drawn?

I think the Civil War would not be so neatly drawn into lines of North V. South or even a messy Red v. Blue state type of war...it will be Rural vs. Urban. I live in the rural part of America and I must say that urbanites have very little idea of what we in the rural area do for them, and how we do it, yet they are constantly trying to regulate what we do.

Who would win? Rural of course. We could starve the cities out in fairly short order, not to mention deny them electrical power, fuel, etc.

I'd say the urban population is pretty dependent on the rural population. The problem is the urban population will find that out really fast. The urban population won't just sit and starve to death in the dark like some of the other posters are assuming, they'll just move the war to the rural area to try to take the resources. Both sides have weapons, but the urban population has strength in numbers. Could still go either way though.

Also, I wouldn't get too over-confident about that whole Midwest taking on the rest of the country thing either. Over-confidence and naivete is a big reason why the South lost the first Civil War.

I think pieces of the US would start to break away and once one goes, the others will gain momentum to do the same (like how Tunisia sparked the revolutions in the Middle East) and I think Washington would be overwhelmed, not knowing how to respond to the different fronts. There would probably be a union of Northeastern states that would seek to break away from the US. The big struggle would be for NY state. If the separatist groups could not get a hold of NYC government then Washington would have no chance to stop it. Upstate NY west of the Hudson is much more conservative, they'd stay with the USA.

Texas would then go and some deep south states would tag along with them. California would view such instability as a threat to their large economy and would separate easily.

What's left of the USA would be a curved shape running from Delaware to the upper Midwest -- states that have no power to rebel or no desire to (West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, etc.). Of course that's all hypothetical, but I imagine it might happen one day.

I don't think there will be a big bloody civil war over it. Just the inevitable and eventually people would accept it and not bother to keep the union intact. Nothing lasts forever, and there's no point keeping together a union that ceases to function properly.

I agree it would be along municipal lines.

Urban areas have tons of people and no natural resources. Wars are fought by men but men fight on their stomach.

Plus the urban areas would Balkanize pretty quickly, black vs white vs hispanic vs other where most rural areas would be fairly solid.

It's an interesting concept.

Alabama, SC, NC, Miss, LA, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, ND, SD, Arizona, Tenn, Kentucky, Iowa and Missouri

Im not sure about who vs who, but whoever gets California wins due to California's strong economic power and all the crops and technology produced here.

Cities v. Everyone Else. I think the biggest "blue pockets" are metropolitan. I think the greatest dependence on government is engendered in city living.

Depends on who the sides are, extremely unlikely it will be North/South again.

Democrats all across the country would starve to death when their checks quit coming.

The war would be over the 9th day after the following month. (We could beat them faster if we put all beer in America on sale for half off.)

It would be drawn at the police perimeter outside of the house with the drunken asshole inside. The drunken asshole would be skulking around the house with a gun shouting racial slurs. Eventually the drunken asshole would be shot in the head by a police sniper with a .308.