…the majority of the red states vanished. Unfortunately their karma also took a lot of the blue with them.
This is more of a thought experiment than anything else, because science tells us that even if all the ice on Earth melted completely, the sea level would rise "only" 65m, or about 230 feet. It will still destroy all the coastal cities around the world, but it wouldn't bury half of North America in the way a 500 meter rise would.
A more realistic view of what a 65m sea rise would do to the planet is in the images below.
