r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/pm_me_ur_ParusMajors North Carolina 1d ago

Considering how much agriculture and manufacturing actually come out of California, this would have a substantial impact on the rest of the US. The California gdp is as much as in the top 5 gdp's in the world.

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u/Cisco-NintendoSwitch 1d ago

Right, California could secede and collapse all the red states.

Either way we’re heading to something.

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u/Daxx22 Canada 1d ago

As relatively careful Civil War was to not be to politically specific, having California be one of the succeeding states is pretty realistic/required logistically.

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u/MVRKHNTR 1d ago

If I remember right, a lot of the worldbuilding from that was almost directly lifted from parts of Robert Evans' After the Revolution and as someone from a farming town who's studied and reported on actual civil wars, he had a pretty solid explanation for why California would ally with Texas.  

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u/AbrohamDrincoln 1d ago

Do you have any high level overview for why that is?

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u/MVRKHNTR 1d ago edited 1d ago

No, I'm pretty dumb but I highly recommend the book. From what I remember, it has to do with a collapse of agricultural infrastructure and the two states band together because that's the core of both states' economy.