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/socialcommentary2000 New York 1d ago

There's 5 US states that have less population than the County I live in adjacent to NYC...and I'm not even in the highest population one in the area.

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u/pomonamike California 1d ago

Yeah I’m from Los Angeles County. There are 10 million people just in this county. It’s more populous than the vast majority of states. Hell, I live in Riverside County now and it has more people than a few states.

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u/Nihilistic_Mystics California 1d ago

And Greater LA (the contiguous city spanning multiple counties) is 18.3M people. If greater LA were its own state it'd be the 5th largest by population.

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u/pomonamike California 1d ago

Yep! I try to explain this to people and they don’t get it. I had some friends from Alabama come visit and we went for a little drive from Santa Monica to Cabazon (they wanted to see the dinosaurs) and they were shocked that it’s just solid city for about 60 miles.