Forest, fish and tourism and that’s it, we do have a fair amount of Hydro power but with no coal, gas or oil reserves we do not have Economic Viability!
We also sit on oil, natural gas, and according to a mining request made by Jim Irving, god and other precious metals. Along with tons of farm and ranch land.
No there is some other industries in Maine. I saw an ad for 500 acres in Bolton for about 65k. That includes a 3 bedroom home that needs fixing up.
Join Quebec and go on the dole.
The only rational secessionist movement even remotely possible is one where the states rebel legislatively and economically against federal government and that isn’t even secession. Its just the states reasserting their rightful powers.
Personally I would be satisfied if we could re-amend the 16th and 17th amendments.
We have oil and gas reserves, we may have coal, no one has really ever looked, we have gold, silver and other precious and semi precious minerals.
Without the EPA and DEP strangle hold we have manufacturing opportunities aplenty.
And the list goes on and is enhanced by having no welfare.