Calexit

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(01-28-2017, 09:32 PM)Yojimbo Wrote: Found some economic data from a couple of years ago. California is 13.3% of the U.S. economy, next closest is Texas at 9.5%. Be a big chunk of the federal tax base if California left. Also, California would quickly form relations with Mexico and Canada, plus other South American countries and Asian countries. They wouldn't wither and die without the United States.

P.S. Also 12% of the entire country's population.

I wonder what part of that economy and population % would leave California if they became their own country.

I highly doubt Hollywood would want to have to get passports and visas every time they want to shoot anything in the other 49 states. Same with the tech companies, who wouldn't want the tariffs involved in sending their products from California to Colorado. Also take away all the military bases and ports, and the surrounding areas they support. Plus all the federal employees. Plus the general amount of people who want to retain their US citizenship.

Don't get me wrong, they'd still be a big population and economy, but the numbers you just provided are with all those federal jobs/dollars and assuming 100% of people and businesses in California stay there and renounce their citizenship.