Ultimately, border states are on their own. There will be no help from the federal government. In the not too distant future, southern states will finally realize that this all is by federal government design, and will begin communication with each other. The only solution will be to form a pac with each other, and other neighboring states for survival of their communities, and states.
The federal governments obvious goal is to push us into chaos where we will want the federal government to come in and save us, with Martial law, and gun confiscation, resulting in total federal government control.