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    Well, by communities here, I meant racial and ethnic communities. You can't have an all-white organization pushing some plan for blacks to inhabit a certain part of the country and get them to buy into it, even if you're offering a great deal.

    But the idea of returning to some variety of federalism is definitely one way of going, and the way I'd actually prefer most.

    We'd have to sunset the 14th Amendment to do it.

    The 14th Amendment is the linchpin of leftist dominance in the United States, and every major socially transformative decision from gay marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges) to destroying single-race neighborhoods (Shelley v. Kraemer) to providing schools for illegal immigrants (Plyler v. Doe) to birthright citizenship, among many others, all find their legal basis in the 14th, which was essentially ratified at gunpoint after the Civil War. The "Equal Protection" clause of 14th also ensures that citizens have the same rights in every state, which means states can't differ in social policy. This is what we would have to change.

    Ideally, we'd pass a new Amendment sunsetting the Equal Protection clause (and perhaps other elements of the 14th) on some future date, say, 10 years from ratification. Each state and its citizens would have 10 years to signal exactly what sort of constituency they intend to appeal to. Some states would take a hard right turn, other states would take a hard left turn. Most states would probably take a more measured approach in one direction or the other.

    Citizens would have a decade to advocate for policies in their home state, or to move to a new state which looked to suit them better. Everyone would find themselves in a community of people who share more-or-less the same values. Then one day, the 14th Amendment would end, just like the 18th Amendment ended on December 5th, 1933. The era of American insanity that we're living in now could stop just as suddenly and simply as Prohibition did.