Life could get VERRRRY interesting for the California secessionists.
Let’s saw, for fun, that these wild eyed fools do successfully secede. Then what?
First, they have to become independent when it comes to both power and water generation. I don’t really see either political party much less the average citizen cutting any sweetheart deals with independent California.
Second, how will they deal with a drastic reduction in international trade? Yes. they are the 7th largest world economy, but as part of the US. I would suspect a double tariff system on any products transiting California for the remaining States. At that point it becomes better to ship directly to the Eastern seaports.
Third, anyone traveling out of California will have to go through international border controls - potentially, think TSA on steroids. That includes any trip to Nevada and stays in Las Vegas.
Fourth what about a new national - New California - currency? I really don’t see the US allowing New California using US currency as its national currency.
Finally, what happens when significant parts of the independent national of California want to succeed from it? If California could succeed why couldn’t individual counties, or groups of counties succeed from it? New California could be reduced to a weirdly shaped coastal nation like Chili with a larger area in the southern desert east of LA.
Again, just some random thoughts with my first cup of coffee.
Why would the USA all of a sudden tariff CA imports when we, like a cheap whore, let every other country import duty free? Why the sudden protectionism?