Cities are the economic engines of the economy. Any idea that they can be dispensed with profitably is just idiocy.
Without Chicago, Illinois would be just miles of land producing more food than it can consume because there are no cities.
Cities are so productive economically that governments try any and all measures to stop the influx from the countryside where there is stagnation. Young people flee the lack of opportunity in rural areas and go where the division of labor is the greatest and jobs most plentiful.
They are difficult to control and have been since Rome but keep growing. It is critical that the GOP begin to compete for their votes.
I agree with you in general, but we’re talking about a scenario of Calexit actually happening. It won’t anyway, but my point was it wouldn’t last long if it did.