#Calexit - Whiny liberals who want to secede because Trump won

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TheAmazingAxolotl said:
What even is California's agriculture? The only foods they export to other states are shitty oranges and dates. Hell, if any state feeds half the nation, it's fucking Texas because not only do they grow crops, they also supply meat and dairy, and Texas
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California currently produces the majority (75% or more) of the following in the United States, bold means that California produces >99% of that agricultural product:

  • Almonds
  • Escarole/Endive
  • Limes
  • Plums
  • Apricots
  • Figs
  • Melons
  • Cantaloupe
  • Plums, Dried
  • Artichokes
  • Flowers, Bulbs
  • Melons, Honeydew
  • Pluots
  • Asparagus
  • Flowers, Cut
  • Milk
  • Pomegranates
  • Avocados
  • Flowers, Potted Plants
  • Milk, Goat
  • Raspberries
  • Beans, Dry Lima
  • Garlic
  • Nectarines
  • Rice, Sweet
  • Bedding/Garden Plants
  • Grapes, Raisins
  • Nursery, Bedding Plants
  • Safflower
  • Broccoli
  • Grapes, Table
  • Nursery Crops
  • Seed, Alfalfa
  • Brussels Sprouts
  • Grapes, Wine
  • Olives
  • Seed, Bermuda Grass
  • Cabbage, Chinese
  • Greens, Mustard
  • Onions, Dry
  • Seed, Ladino Clover
  • Cabbage, F.M.
  • Hay, Alfalfa
  • Onions, Green
  • Seed, Vegetable and Flower
  • Carrots
  • Herbs
  • Parsley
  • Spinach
  • Cauliflower
  • Kale
  • Peaches, Clingstone
  • Strawberries
  • Celery
  • Kiwifruit
  • Peaches, Freestone
  • Tangelos
  • Chicory
  • Kumquats
  • Pears, Bartlett
  • Tangerines
  • Cotton, American Pima
  • Lemons
  • Peppers, Bell
  • Tomatoes, Processing
  • Daikon
  • Lettuce, Head
  • Persimmons
  • Vegetables, Greenhouse
  • Dates
  • Lettuce, Leaf
  • Pigeons and Squabs
  • Vegetables, Oriental
  • Eggplant
  • Lettuce, Romaine
  • Pistachios
  • Walnuts
  • Wild Rice
Source: http://www.motherjones.com/files/2agovstat10_web-1.pdf
 
RealtreeByGod said:
Most of the agriculture is in the central valley though, isn't it?
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A fair bit, yes. The most dry parts - like Barstow / desolate towns off the 5 between SF and LA - have a ton of cattle pens / slaughterhouses; there's a significant amount of beef production there, and watering those heads of cattle would mean moving that production elsewhere. The grapes (wine and raisins), avocados, almonds, and weed are all grown up north, and there's a significant amount of produce farmed around Stockton, CA (which is inland, but also in the North.) Limes and oranges are grown in SoCal, and those products wouldn't fare as well in other parts of the state as they require tons of sun and dry heat, so without a pipeline of snow melt, that production would probably cease. But, because we basically have a year round grow season - each farm has 2+ yearly harvests from San Francisco on down - it would be worth it to cultivate what were formerly federal lands, closer to the sources of water.

Anyway, sorry for the production / water / defense sperg; I just wanted to point out that these things aren't insurmountable should this actually be a thing.
 
EverythingIsChemicals said:
A fair bit, yes. The most dry parts - like Barstow / desolate towns off the 5 between SF and LA - have a ton of cattle pens / slaughterhouses; there's a significant amount of beef production there, and watering those heads of cattle would mean moving that production elsewhere. The grapes (wine and raisins), avocados, almonds, and weed are all grown up north, and there's a significant amount of produce farmed around Stockton, CA (which is inland, but also in the North.) Limes and oranges are grown in SoCal, and those products wouldn't fare as well in other parts of the state as they require tons of sun and dry heat, so without a pipeline of snow melt, that production would probably cease. But, because we basically have a year round grow season - each farm has 2+ yearly harvests from San Francisco on down - it would be worth it to cultivate what were formerly federal lands, closer to the sources of water.

Anyway, sorry for the production / water / defense sperg; I just wanted to point out that these things aren't insurmountable should this actually be a thing.
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You forget one detail which would spell doom for the Independent Nation of California. It would be run by presumptuous moonbats and idiot millennials whose knee jerk reaction to someone disagreeing with them is to cry, scream racism/misogyny/Islamophobia/transphobia, and then leave to form their own independent country of like-minded weiners who think they're smarter than everyone else.
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
You forget one detail which would spell doom for the Independent Nation of California. It would be run by presumptuous moonbats and idiot millennials whose knee jerk reaction to someone disagreeing with them is to cry, scream racism/misogyny/Islamophobia/transphobia, and then leave to form their own independent country of like-minded weiners who think they're smarter than everyone else.
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And no matter who they choose for the leader of their government there would be riots and burning dumpsters in the streets because the leader is guilty of said racism/misogyny/Islamophobia/transphobia.
 
TheAmazingAxolotl said:
What even is California's agriculture? The only foods they export to other states are shitty oranges and dates. Hell, if any state feeds half the nation, it's fucking Texas because not only do they grow crops, they also supply meat and dairy, and Texas
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Now hold the fuck up. California oranges are far superior to the sagging bags of mush produced in Florida. This is likely accomplished the true Californian way, by having 12 managers act passively aggressively towards the person in charge of growing the oranges.

I still remember the first time I had a meeting with Macys West. How do you people not kill each other at work and keep the homicides to the roadways?
 
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Can they actually make up some original names for things instead of suffixes like -gate or -exit? Calexit sounds like a diuretic supplement.
 
Pikimon said:
California currently produces the majority (75% or more) of the following in the United States, bold means that California produces >99% of that agricultural product:

  • Almonds
  • Escarole/Endive
  • Limes
  • Plums
  • Apricots
  • Figs
  • Melons
  • Cantaloupe
  • Plums, Dried
  • Artichokes
  • Flowers, Bulbs
  • Melons, Honeydew
  • Pluots
  • Asparagus
  • Flowers, Cut
  • Milk
  • Pomegranates
  • Avocados
  • Flowers, Potted Plants
  • Milk, Goat
  • Raspberries
  • Beans, Dry Lima
  • Garlic
  • Nectarines
  • Rice, Sweet
  • Bedding/Garden Plants
  • Grapes, Raisins
  • Nursery, Bedding Plants
  • Safflower
  • Broccoli
  • Grapes, Table
  • Nursery Crops
  • Seed, Alfalfa
  • Brussels Sprouts
  • Grapes, Wine
  • Olives
  • Seed, Bermuda Grass
  • Cabbage, Chinese
  • Greens, Mustard
  • Onions, Dry
  • Seed, Ladino Clover
  • Cabbage, F.M.
  • Hay, Alfalfa
  • Onions, Green
  • Seed, Vegetable and Flower
  • Carrots
  • Herbs
  • Parsley
  • Spinach
  • Cauliflower
  • Kale
  • Peaches, Clingstone
  • Strawberries
  • Celery
  • Kiwifruit
  • Peaches, Freestone
  • Tangelos
  • Chicory
  • Kumquats
  • Pears, Bartlett
  • Tangerines
  • Cotton, American Pima
  • Lemons
  • Peppers, Bell
  • Tomatoes, Processing
  • Daikon
  • Lettuce, Head
  • Persimmons
  • Vegetables, Greenhouse
  • Dates
  • Lettuce, Leaf
  • Pigeons and Squabs
  • Vegetables, Oriental
  • Eggplant
  • Lettuce, Romaine
  • Pistachios
  • Walnuts
  • Wild Rice
Source: http://www.motherjones.com/files/2agovstat10_web-1.pdf
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Rice? I'm almost positive that East Texas and Louisiana could supplant Cali for rice growing.

nonnewtonian said:
Nah, we'd be a little more original and call it #Wiscape.
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You can #Wiscape all you like, but you will never escape the crippling depression of the Midwest.
 
Funny story. I live in western Australia, which actually did technically secede from the rest of Australia in the 1930s. There was a vote and the leave party won, but never bothered to actually leave the rest of Australia.
So now, every once in a while, we threaten to leave and take our mines with us. But then we never do. Because it's stupid and so is California.
 
Fulda's Gap said:
Rice? I'm almost positive that East Texas and Louisiana could supplant Cali for rice growing.
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Not without immense price increases and shortages.

What I'm trying to say is that we are as a country better working together than dividing ourselves apart.

To use a local example, there is a (mostly one-sided) rivalry between Northern California (rural redwood county and the Bay Area) and Southern California (LA and SD metro areas and the Imperial Valley) where it has been suggested multiple times to divide the state into two separate states.

However that would fuck over both Norcal and Socal in different ways, and would mitigate the economic success that we in California enjoy because of our cooperation. So we stay together as one state, and we have to do the same as a country.
 
Furina said:
Funny story. I live in western Australia, which actually did technically secede from the rest of Australia in the 1930s. There was a vote and the leave party won, but never bothered to actually leave the rest of Australia.
So now, every once in a while, we threaten to leave and take our mines with us. But then we never do. Because it's stupid and so is California.
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It's funny because all the uppity seccessionists live in Perth and Broome and have never gone outback in their lives but they can't stop whining about "muh mineral wealth being exploited". Calgoorlie doesn't give a fuck whether their profits get shipped to the coastal fancylad city cunts east of them or west of them, they know they're getting deep-dicked either way.
 
To those of you who think we'd be fucked because they'd take all the food, note that probably only the liberal strong holds would secede. I'd imagine a lot of the farm land is in conservative territory. Even in New York, another blue stronghold, the majority of the state is red while the population center and surroundings are blue.
 
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