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Is that rift endangering the future of US as a whole?

• walkingolof 8y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_and_secession_in_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_and_secession_in_Cal...
  • adamnemecek 8y ago
    I’m aware. Is this like a thing that’s likely to happen.
    • protomyth 8y ago
      Not really. There was a pretty good chance of the state of Jefferson happening, then WWII happened and screwed up that plan. Secession would be really tricky given California's dependence on the states around it for power, water, etc.
• mhneu 8y ago
  It's a danger. It used to be unthinkable. Now it's just very very unlikely. The recent Republican tax cut for the first time really explicitly targets blue states. If the urban areas get upset and act like Germany towards Greece/Kansas/Alabama, you could see great divisions in the US. It's the reason James Clapper[1], who measured other countries' instability, is now worried because he's seeing it in the US. https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-former-us-spy-chief-became-trumps-fiercest-critic/ https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-former-us-spy-chief-became... “The United States had begun to show many of the same characteristics of instability we used to assess other nation-states,” he writes, including rising income equality, an increasingly restive population of young people who couldn’t find work, a rural-urban divide, and declining political discourse. [1] Leave his signals intel role aside for now; he ran agencies whose role was to predict which other countries would be unstable, and rural-urban divides are a big predictor. Gulp.