• theherk@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They’d become a pretty large country with one of the world’s largest economies holding major port access to their neighbor. A few allies and things aren’t quite so clear cut. Not to mention they’d potentially have significant military resources.

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      2 months ago

      That economy is tightly integrated with the rest of the country.
      In a secession, those ties would be severed, likely tanking the economy of both California and the US.