Can't speak for others, but as for me, I like to quote former Reagan official Charles M. Lichenstein, who said about the U.N.:
"The members of the U.S. mission to the United Nations will be down at the dockside waving you a fond farewell as you sail off into the sunset."
The only issue of dispute is making them pay for their fair share of the National Debt and National debt obligations that their Liberal congressional team has racked up since FDR. Settle their monetary accounts with us and I shall be happy to see that cesspool of a state government excise themselves from this body politic.
If you believe that the secession of the Southern states in 1860-61 was done in a legal manner, then why should California's leaving require anything more than a declaration that they're gone, and a mad scramble for every bit of federal property that wasn't nailed down?
The only issue of dispute is making them pay for their fair share of the National Debt and National debt obligations that their Liberal congressional team has racked up since FDR. Settle their monetary accounts with us and I shall be happy to see that cesspool of a state government excise themselves from this body politic.
2) I would encourage you to research the demise of the Soviet Union. IT is a recent event and was an interesting process. There were several causes to their demise and we are in very a similar situation. Our demise may be the same but different.