Will California one day end up going to war to seek its own independence? We've seen the USSR break up. Will it take only a few more decades for the same fate of dissolution to befall the USA? The union proved a good incubator for some powerful states to emerge, but will the states eventually want to go their own separate ways when they're all grown up? The union almost broke apart once, but didn't. But is the fact that it didn't back then any guarantee that it won't eventually in the future? I guess we just wait and see. History has a habit of being interesting and dramatic every few decades.