Coloradan. Only if a neighboring State does, because if not, we are neighboring other borders and we would be landlocked without food or water imports. Its either all Pacific and Front Range States agree we have to split, or none of us can.
Our most populous cities, Denver and CO Springs, are below the mountains, and are screwed in a combat scenario.
I don’t see Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, or Kansas doing so willingly.
New Mexico went Kamala. Border state.
In American balkanization I imagine yall would be a battleground of the literal variety. Colorado and new Mexico would want to join Pacifica and Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, and Montana likely won’t. But also you’re valuable enough to justify putting up a stink for
I think Colorado could force AZ to do what they want just by threatening to turn off the water.
Our water? It comes from dwindling snowpack due to climate change. I think you are overstating our pull here dude.
Only as a last resort and everything else has been tried.
Absolutely. Not because I think it would necessarily be better off, but because I don’t want us to contribute to the empire and the loss of our economy would devastate the US.
Indiana. We’d fail so hard and so fast that I literally cannot imagine it. People are nuts. It’d be instant MAGA-flavored Mad Max if they felt like they had an excuse to preemptively defend themselves with their guns across the countryside.
Alabama. Not enough federal money in the world to keep that state afloat.
If they split from the Union, everyone starves.
yeah if we figure out a way to not starve
We’re leaving the east coast? I think they deserve a path too
New England. Maybe with NY, you could have New New.
Yes
I’m cool wit dat
Washingtonian here, I’ve been saying this should happen for like 8 years now lmao
The marriage isn’t working. Let it go.
We have had a name for it for awhile, my fellow Washingtonians call the Washington/Oregon/California union ‘Cascadia’. Wouldn’t be such a bad idea.
Absolutely, and I’m about ready to start identifying as that over American 🫠.
I usually think of BC being part of it, too, cause we’re so similar culturally, and we hang out on each other’s side of the made up invisible line all the time.
One can dream!
It would have a hell of a lot of economic power, and natural resources.
Sounds like the kind of place the US would invade
Fuck yeah! Cascadia! Let us stop funding this awful government and actually put our taxes towards improving people’s lives
If you don’t take AZ and NV with you, you will get your Colorado River water cut off and lose a lot of farming power. That might even require UT. Unless it’s only Northern California included, in which case you still lose that agriculture, and possible land based trade lines to Mexico. It’s not a clean and pretty separation.
Its part of why I moved out west. That and fear of persecution in the Midwest.
The first step is refering to yourself as a member of your state and not an American I guess
I usually refer to myself as Cascadian
Absolutely
- Sincerely, someone from the EU
If the Union completely dissolved and each state had to function as nation, it would be a massive boom for the oligarchs. They already have more money than most states.
I support balkanizing the US
