In a move that’s stoking debate across the political spectrum, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene—the Georgia Republican known for her incendiary rhetoric—has revived her call for a “national divorce” between red and blue states.
Greene argues that deep ideological divides have made coexisting within a unified federal government untenable. She advocates for a legal separation along political lines, where conservative and liberal states manage their own affairs—controlling education, commerce, and communications—while keeping a nominal “legal union” intact. In previous proposals, she even suggested that people who move from blue to red states should be disallowed from voting for up to five years (Newsweek, The Independent, Bách khoa toàn thư Wikipedia).
Her rhetoric isn’t just talk. Greene has explicitly stated: “We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government.” She frames the proposal as a solution to “irreconcilable differences,” from “woke culture” to “America Last policies” (The Daily Dot, The New Republic).
But her suggestions have ignited widespread backlash—even among fellow Republicans. Utah Governor Spencer Cox condemned the idea as “destructive and wrong,” while Senator Mitt Romney called it “insanity.” The White House also labeled the calls for division as “sick, divisive, and alarming” (The Independent, Vanity Fair, Bách khoa toàn thư Wikipedia).
Critics warn that dividing the nation along partisan lines is both impracticable and perilous. Historical analogies to fragmented societies suggest such division breeds instability, conflict, and loss of democratic cohesion (The Wall Street Journal).
As the debate rages on, one clear reality emerges: deep polarized sentiment isn’t going away—it’s only becoming harder to ignore.
