• Filthmontane@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    California produces 10% of American agricultural needs. If they secede it would be way worse on the economy than these tariffs.

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        19 days ago

        Those 5 states would do just fine without the United States but the United states would be an unimportant backwater without them.

        well no, the US would still be 60-70% of the total US economy without them lmao.

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            17 days ago

            an economy of whatever it currently does? I think you literally said it yourself, the handful of states are 30% the economy of the US total, the rest is still a thing, it’s not going to disappear lmao. Idk how hard this is to understand.

            The US primarily exports high value goods and services, tech for example, not food.

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      19 days ago

      I’m genuinely curious on how realistic this is… I can’t imagine it’s a simple process, but like what would need to happen for California to become it’s own country?

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        To do so legally, Constitutional Convention. 2/3 of states would have to agree to let it go. And everyone would have to hammer out what happens to federal assets inside the state.

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        19 days ago

        There is basically zero chance they successfully secede. There is however a slightly above zero chance they seriously try.

        California trying to secede would be stupid enough to make Trump look like a top mensa candidate.

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        19 days ago

        At the moment, California is taking signatures for studying a “CALexit” plan. It is about 500,000 signatures by July for a successful petition. After that, California starts to study the costs, opportunities, logistics, and other aspects of leaving the union.