We can only hope! If they seceded, the US GDP would go up by 20%. If they take Oregon and Washington with them, Trump's wall should start on the California/Nevada border and proceed north. Nevada has too many California immigrants as it is.

I agree. The title itself is a fantasy, as an exit will destroy their economy, and it would no longer be "6th". That's simple economic law. If you add in the "unintended consequences", which really are just "unexpected consequences" to those who reject reason as it applies to economics, even worse. The simplest analogy would be like the collapse of Obamacare, on steroids.

If CA seceded, one unintended consequence I would predict is many counties in CA would secede from CA. Outside of the main
populations centers (SF Bay area, Sacramento,
Santa Cruz-Monterey, LA-San Diego) CA is a much different place.

Those Californians are a bunch of mental midgets. (No offense to little people). Thanks for pointing out the obvious to them, but I doubt if it would have much impact as thinking might interfere with pleasure. Being spoiled is a national pastime in California which has so much to offer but is curtailed voluntarily by the attitude of brats.

If they exit, I hope they exclude San Diego, then, it could be run by sensible people and become the paradise on earth of its potential.

It would be fun to watch. No more Pelosi or those other goofy Congress people form Calif. No more federal aid or Pelosi handouts to her husband's company.No more school funding. No more Medicaid. All on your own. Let in all the immigrants you want, but remember YOU will be the ones paying for them. No more of my taxes going to lunkheads of the far West! You want to send your products to the rest of us, fine, pay a tax. When the big one hits, you won't have Fedral aid to put what remains back together. Actually, it is sounding better and better. Good luck getting manual labor out of those snowflakes you love so much!

It's true...the question of secession by LEGAL means was settled by the civil war, leaving another bloody civil war as an ILLEGAL means to do so. Let us work to make sure this never happens. It reminds me of what Ayn Rand termed the "balkanization" of the United States:

"Tribalism (which is the best name to give to all the group manifestations of the anti-conceptual mentality) is a dominant element in Europe, as a reciprocally reinforcing cause and result of Europe's long history of caste systems, of national and local (provincial) chauvinism, of rule by brute force and endless bloody wars. As an example, observe the Balkan nations, which are perennially bent upon exterminating one another over miniscule differences of tradition or language. Tribalism had no place in the United states--until recent decades. It could not take root here, its imported seedlings were withering away and turning to slag in the melting pot whose fire was fed by two inexhaustible sources of energy: individual rights and objective law; these two were the only protection man needed." [" The Missing Link" PHILOSOPHY, WHO NEEDS IT, 260; pb 213]

Go for it! Let's see how they do without the rest of the US. Food, protection, money they steal, electricity, water. I'm pretty sure we can do without Hollywood.

Without the rest of the US, CA will be Mexico or Venezuela in 15 years.

California could never do it if they really wanted to. If they did, they would likely charge one humdinger of a tariff on all goods landing at the Ports of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Aside from that, their only real export would be motion pictures and television shows. And in this era of the Internet stream, their product might rapidly become obsolete.

But I worry that current California residents will simply add "Alta" to the name of their State and seek (and gain) admission as another United Mexican State.

I think that this is an AWESOME IDEA! Cutting the Cancer of California out of America would Greatly benefit the other 49 states. One added stipulation though, we need to ship ALL of the Illegals and whiny Liberals there first.

Give it back to Mexico. Just have to build a longer wall.

We in the Pacific Northwest would be thrilled to keep our plentiful water and hydroelectric resources. But I digress.
The real question is, how do the hard working farmers, ranchers and doers from any state's hinterland cope with the moochers from the cities?

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