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If they hadn't done "east west" instead of some other cardinal directions, it would probably be prophetic
The moment I heard "alliance between California and Texas" I was detached from the movie. That is literally the least likely alliance I could think of
The point of the film is to show how horrible war is in a context Americans can relate to. If they made a more realistic alliance, down some sort of real life right / left politics the message would be lost and it would be held up as some sort of propaganda film by one side of politics with the other side using it to justify why they're correct.
So, yes the "alliance between the California and Texas" is a very deliberate choice.
Also the idea of the two most economically independent and arguably most "separatist" US states forming an alliance in a modern civil war is really not the stretch that most Americans with their ideology blinders on might feel it is. Two large polities that wish to be sovereign lean on each other to support their parallel ends? That's actually tenable world-building, I think.
I believe in the lore, California and Texas both secede from the Union following an unpopular president getting a third term. The rest of the Gulf states secede as the Florida Alliance, and the Northwest secede in some other alliance not directly named but usually listed as Western Forces.
It was a bit much to work with, but once I realized that the civil war itself and the whys weren't what the movie was about, I went with it. This scene was the most disturbing of them all. Maybe because it's not that hard to imagine some people going this far. I'm sure there's some veterans of various conflicts that would agree and saw it happen.
There are pluralities of leftist in Texas, and wrongists in California. There would probably be two alliances between them, one on each side.