I think that those pushing Calexit would disagree with you.
According to their website (http://www.yescalifornia.org/), California is the 6th largest economy in the world. Is it? I think it was 30 years ago, but I do not think that is true any more.
That website claims that California is subsidizing the rest of the US. Well, I guess if you don’t count little things like the massive welfare pouring into the state, sure.
That website lists quite a few problems, along with some seriously unrealistic utopian blathering. The problems (poor education, crumbling infrastructure) are self-inflicted. The authors of the site feel that the military is unneeded, and that if CA would secede, no one would have a reason to attack them. Yet CA is prime real estate; do they really think that Mexico wouldn’t move immediately to try to reclaim that property? Especially with illegal aliens setting up shanties, presumably all over the state (I saw them in the Bay Area)?
In a way, I would like to see a Calexit, just to see the state succumb to the lies of socialism that much faster. But that would cause problems for the US down the road. Would the US really want to have to go back in and fix CA after unopposed socialism ruins it? Would the US be willing to go to war with Mexico to protect an independent CA?
I’d love to see CA broken into two or three states rather than secede. That would dilute its disproportionate effect on national elections. In addition, I could move back to a conservative area and not have to worry about the kook areas of San Francisco and LA. I left CA for the second time 13 years ago...I love the state that I grew up in, but not what it has become.
I assume this is accurate:
I’m not sure how much of CA’s GDP is gov’t spending, but I’m sure the data is out there. I know a big portion of the State budget is Federally funded. Roughly 1/3, IIRC (which I may not...)
Geographically I really like Cali. Demographically and politically I can’t stand it these days. When I lived there from 1980-2000 it was pretty good until the early to mid 90’s when it started getting over run by the Southern invasion. Ruined it completely for me. We got the dregs of Hispanic society and not the good ones so it was easy to cop an attitude against them just by their attitudes, crime, and culture. They made it clear they had no intention of assimilating or to even try to Americanize. They were and are invaders plain and simple. If they could cut the Hispanic population in CA to 1/10 of it is now; maybe just maybe it could be salvaged. Otherwise I don’t see how it could. Breaking it up would help. It would have helped much more 20 years ago.