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From what I can tell they’re most mad about the idea that water isn’t an infinite resource during a drought, and the suggestion that it should maybe be allocate
by jacobolus 9y ago
From what I can tell they’re most mad about the idea that water isn’t an infinite resource during a drought, and the suggestion that it should maybe be allocated using a market.
That and some of them are unhappy about living in the same state with people who have different skin color or sexual orientation and having their government pay for schools that teach science, women’s reproductive health, social safety net programs, and so on.
The less populated parts of the state get dramatically disproportionate state and federal resources spent on them. Support for their schools, infrastructure, medical care, fire protection, etc.
- sapienthomo 9y agoThat's in the southern part of the central valley. In the northern part, the counties that make up the overtly racist separatist movement "State of Jefferson" what they want is to just clearcut every tree in the state. This will provide a total of roughly nine full-time jobs, but some of the people who live there can remember when logging wasn't totally automated, and actually employed a lot of people. Most counties in California should be very pleased to be thrown in with the coastal urban areas, because without them the state economy wouldn't amount to a hill of beans. All of the resource extraction industries (logging, oil, quarrying) and agriculture+fishing combined are worth about 5% of the state economy. The "State of Jefferson" counties wouldn't even be able to afford to pave their highways, much less fight their wildfires, and certainly not rebuild Oroville Dam.