I'm forced to agree that the projections look lousy, and this eventuality would be ugly. However, one never can be sure about such projections. For instance, we're assuming that the United States stays intact. There's no shortage of international observers (many in the Kremlin, for instance) who predict that the United States will break into pieces, and not long from now. And if that happens, then all demographic projections are out the window.
At first, I thought that any talk of secession was silly, and I would still call that quite unlikely. But impossible? If there's an economic collapse, then it's my opinion that a break-up of the United States will be inevitable. The reddest and rural of the red states are not going to succumb to communism as a cure for ills brought on by socialism. It would be painful, but if so, then who can deny the possibility that there might yet be a traditionalist-dominated parcel to form out of what's left of the United States.
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