Plus, if you sue the government order from any courts in CA, you will win anyways these days.
CA is too liberal to remain in US, I remember they were saying CA-Independence from USA after 2016, I can't wait to support it, but those people somehow did not proceed, very disappointed.
The problem with this is that if the liberal states are allowed out of the union, the conservative states will run out of other people's money to spend.
[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/9358/us-gdp-by-state-and-regi...
when you cripple education systems, fewer people can think critically about issues and the ramifications of decisions are much more abstract.
Now we have 3 countries that can feed themselves, pay for what they need, with coastal access, and we have what's left of the United States. Not a great scenario if you follow it to its conclusion.
At a finer grain, looking at the top 20 CSAs[1], many are non-coastal, but to my guesstimates only 20% are not on a navigable river:
7 8'000'000 Dallas-Forth Worth
11 6'900'000 Atlanta–Athens-Clarke County–Sandy Springs (160 km to Columbus)
13 5'000'000 Phoenix-Mesa
17 3'600'000 Denver-Aurora
> ... and we have what's left of the United States. Not a great scenario if you follow it to its conclusion
Why not? While "Civilian aircraft and aircraft engines" probably takes a hit, the remaining US should continue to have its major exports:
1 Food, beverage and feed: $133 billion. Soybeans were the number one product in this category, with sales of $22 billion, followed by meat and poultry at $18 billion.
2 Crude oil, fuel and other petroleum products: $109 billion.
[1] by population. Anyone have a source for GDP? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_statistical_area
[2] https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/news/economy/top-us-exports... (2017, anything more recent?)
Colorado I wouldn't believe: unlike the west coast, they're tied into the national pipeline network. (On the gripping hand, it, like many other states, is on the western electrical grid.)
The US would lose all the nuclear weapons on the west coast in that deal, which would result in some exciting geopolitical changes. CalOreShington would have a bunch of ballistic missiles, nuclear subs, and long-range bombers.
For the first time the US would have a potent, nuclear-armed non-ally adjacent to its border. There would be hostilities resulting from the federal government demanding compensation for the vast amounts of federal land that would be lost, and the inevitable "come and take it" reply.
The remaining states should certainly hope that they don't lose Colorado in that deal, because they'd be losing NORAD to boot.
From personal experience, I'd say it's better to live in a non-nuclear[3] country, because the local economy can be directed to positive sum consumer and export goods instead of negative sum MAD. So if Colorado were to leave (with our already unlikely assumptions, yet more unlikely due to network[4] effects) I would recommend only doing so politically, allowing the US to continue with basing rights (following the model of the Rest Of The World).
and then there's the small matter of who takes responsibility for a large national debt...
[1] indeed, ever since the unpleasantries of the 1860s I believe it's US military doctrine to base people in regions other than the one they're from.
[2] specifically, I believe the US would commence hostilities well before losing Kitsap and San Diego, let alone Pearl Harbor (because as long as we're in cloud cuckoo land, I'd bet hawaiians, no matter their attitude towards the mainland or fondness for Las Vegas, would prefer being stuck with the west coast than with anyone east of Stockton, and they don't have any economic argument for complete independence.)
[3] as others in the thread have noted, there is a non-negligible chance that third parties would be willing to provide an umbrella. My democracy has managed to survive the last 500 years with a policy of "we're no threat to you unless you cross our border" and indeed we even apologised to the last country we invaded (they replied no hard feelings).
[4] with navigable waterways (and some credible way to deal with harbour mining and general naval interdiction?) money will get one through times of no food better than food will get one through times of no money. Airlifts, as Qatar has discovered, are expensive.
Edit: found GDP by CSA, population was a good proxy (but inland goes up to 25% of top 20)
https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/drilldown.cfm?reqid=70&stepnum=4...
inland CSAs
7 Dallas-Fort Worth 0,5 T
11 Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs 0,4 T
15 Denver-Aurora 0,3 T
16 Phoenix-Mesa 0,3 T
20 Charlotte-Concord 0,2 T
Support for succession of any state is very low. California is also two states. The West coast is super left, yes, but as you move east, it's all very right leaning/republicans. Republicans and also meth .. lots of meth, and desert.