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/distortedsymbol 1d ago

yeah but each and every red state all have very blue urban centers, and even california has deep red areas in the middle.

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u/pagerussell Washington 1d ago

If America broke up there would be a huge sorting out. Conservatives would move to red areas and liberals to blue areas. Not everyone, of course, but there would be massive migrations. Millions of people moving this way and that.

Which on the net of it would be very bad for red states. Most educated people are liberal. Red states would be witnessing a massive brain drain that would ensure a slow death spiral into a third world country.

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u/dedicated-pedestrian Wisconsin 1d ago

Conversely, agriculture work correlates loosely with conservative thought, at least as things stand. So blue areas would have to figure out their food situation, and fast, because those areas are typically immensely more populous than the land that gets red votes.

Still, this type of trade is on the side of the other country - specifically exempting tariffs from Cali.

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u/energetic_buttfucker 1d ago

You're assuming that farmers sell food into urban areas out of the goodness of their hearts... It's not charity, they need buyers or else they'll starve. Farmers don't decide who eats. They are sellers in a cash economy whose survival depends on continuous sale into urban markets. They either sell into blue areas or go bankrupt.