California would politically disintegrate... the coastal Elites would never hold the Central Valley or Inland Empire. California Unity is an illusion
Everyone mistakes California with San Diego, Los Angeles and Frisco - liberalism here in the cities is a mile wide and an inch deep. It will take Trumpism to restore the Golden State.
California is too vunerable.
Cut off the food, water, fuel, and electricity to Socal/Bay area, and the civil war would be over within days.
The Liberal Academic Socialists would very quickly be over=whelmed by their own gimme-dat voters.