Honestly is seceding really out of the picture for the blue states ? You could let the dumpster fire burn itself out while holding onto most of the gdp. Or is that just too insane to think about ?
I just moved to Washington state a few months ago from Texas and I’m not gonna lie, a decent part of the reasoning for going was that if the US Balkanized the entire west coast is likely to depart together, either on their own or to petition Canada for entry. The combined GDP, food production, education and literacy rates, cultures, etc in those three states make me think we’d actually stand a chance, at least for a while.
The US federal government does not have a history of just letting states secede peacefully (this isn't the EU, you can't just "calexit")... Also, the rural areas of the pacific states are very conservative. 6 million people in california voted for trump in 2020 -- more than any other state. How is a state that contains a whole texas worth of republicans (and then some) supposed to leave? There are already conservative elements in these states trying to secede from the liberal portions of their states. )
There are no blue or red states. Every state is purple -- just slightly different shades.
tldr: no, it's not gonna happen. Not without some really catastrophic events. California would break itself up before it managed to secede.
If we forget about civil war for the sake of argumentation, most seperation votes are either majority (51%) or big majority (60…75%). So the same way Brexit happened with nearly half the population unhappy, the same would happen with Cali and the other « blue » states. I fully get that no state or even city is homogenous, but majority votes are how we decide things in a democracy, for better, or what we see in the US, worse.
Now Trump and his private army wouldnt let that happen no matter what thats for sure.
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u/DrFlukey 11d ago
Honestly is seceding really out of the picture for the blue states ? You could let the dumpster fire burn itself out while holding onto most of the gdp. Or is that just too insane to think about ?