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Which State Would Make the Best Country?

Which State Would Make the Best Country?


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We'd just trade our oranges and wine for water and electricity.

Yeah that'll get you, well, no takers. Plus, it'll be interesting seeing you grow oranges without water and electricity. :mrgreen:
 
NY maybe if we're talking about the state, plenty of resources upstate. CA, no way, they'd collapse without the water and electricity from other states. Not sustainable.

NY could pull it off, I think.
 
Yeah that'll get you, well, no takers. Plus, it'll be interesting seeing you grow oranges without water and electricity. :mrgreen:

That's why we'd use them to trade for water. Just try getting along without Cali wine. What are you going to drink, Coke? Pepsi? Bud Light?
 
That's why we'd use them to trade for water. Just try getting along without Cali wine. What are you going to drink, Coke? Pepsi? Bud Light?

Other states make wine as good as or better than CA wine (my own included). Some of would miss humboldt county a bit though. :mrgreen:
 
Other states make wine as good as or better than CA wine (my own included). Some of would miss humboldt county a bit though. :mrgreen:

Hey, we'd trade whatever the remainder of the US wanted.
 
Four states have been former republics. Several have sporadic or persistent secession movements.

Which state, if it left the US, would make the most functional new country?

Most functional ?

Well that leaves out the Peoples Republic of Mexifornia.

The Republic of TEXAS.

They already have oil and gas and refineries in place.

They have a deep water port and a highway and rail/road infrastructure in place.

The cattle and cotton production is enough to feed and cloth the people of the state.

A large standing army wouldn't be necessary because Texas has enough civilians who own guns and know how to use them so Texas can go back to America's roots of a citizen soldier.

It's already a right to carry state.

In Texas you are already allowed to use deadly force to protect yourself, family, home and property.

The Texas Rangers were highly successfully securing the Rio Grande from illegal aliens and smugglers before the U.S. government thought they could do a better job. Not.

Even the Mexicans in Texas speak English.

Texas penal system is already in place and it's not PC and they can put a convicted murder to death faster than any other state.

The most important thing of any Republic is nationalism. Texans are proud of being Texans.

Texans love contact sports and that's important so you don't end up with a state of pantywaist liberals.

Texas already has two NFL teams and that's important and also a professional baseball team.


The Republic of Texas has already been recognized by many of the major countries in the world back during the late 1830's and early 1840's. So that problem of being recognized is already taken care of.

And there aren't that many loony socialist like Shila Jackson Lee that need to be rounded up and tarred and feathered and exiled from the Great Republic of Texas.
 
Four states have been former republics. Several have sporadic or persistent secession movements.

Which state, if it left the US, would make the most functional new country?

Canada made the most functional new country by winning the War of 1812.
 
Canada made the most functional new country by winning the War of 1812.

No ****. You've got the same landmass as the continental US and the same resources, mostly untapped, that we've largely used. One tenth the population of the US and everywhere you go in the world people welcome you, at the very least tolerate you. There's a lot to like.
 
I do not know about a lot of the makeup of each state, but it would seem like California (especially northern) has the water, weather, ports -

Northern California seems like it could fair well from a resource standpoint.

Can we dump SoCal?:lamo
 
we could live with the loss.

But could Mexico ?

Would Mexico still be allowed to send their uneducated, unskilled losers to California ?

Could California's economy afford having tens of billions of dollars leave their economy every year and being sent back to Mexico ?
 
I do not know about a lot of the makeup of each state, but it would seem like California (especially northern) has the water, weather, ports -

Northern California seems like it could fair well from a resource standpoint.

Can we dump SoCal?:lamo

I say we dump everything west of the Coast Range going north up to and including San Francisco, and everything south of the Tehapis, and make a new state out of the rest. Anyone with me?

It would be a red state, BTW.
 
I do not know about a lot of the makeup of each state, but it would seem like California (especially northern) has the water, weather, ports -

Northern California seems like it could fair well from a resource standpoint.

Can we dump SoCal?:lamo

Heh, my grandmother was all over that last. I think NorCal could almost make it on it's own if it didn't have to support SoCal. They get hit pretty hard by drought though and have to come begging us for water from time to time. They'd have to put in a few more dams for the electricity.
 
I say we dump everything west of the Coast Range going north up to and including San Francisco, and everything south of the Tehapis, and make a new state out of the rest. Anyone with me?

It would be a red state, BTW.

I'd live there, red or blue.
 
No ****. You've got the same landmass as the continental US and the same resources, mostly untapped, that we've largely used. One tenth the population of the US and everywhere you go in the world people welcome you, at the very least tolerate you. There's a lot to like.

We like to share too - unfortunately, when Democrats lead in Washington, they snub our generousity.
 
I do not know about a lot of the makeup of each state, but it would seem like California (especially northern) has the water, weather, ports -

Northern California seems like it could fair well from a resource standpoint.

Can we dump SoCal?:lamo

The next tectonic shift may take care of that for you.
 
We like to share too - unfortunately, when Democrats lead in Washington, they snub our generousity.

Well, if I were in my 20s/early 30s again I'd move up that way in a heartbeat.
 
Well, if I were in my 20s/early 30s again I'd move up that way in a heartbeat.

Many are.

Forget Toronto, however, since we're becoming too much like failed liberal America - it's like an infectious disease, you know. But head west or east and there's lots of opportunity for pretty much anyone with ambition.
 
Heh, my grandmother was all over that last. I think NorCal could almost make it on it's own if it didn't have to support SoCal. They get hit pretty hard by drought though and have to come begging us for water from time to time. They'd have to put in a few more dams for the electricity.
When I lived in NoCal I advocated splitting the state and cutting off SoCal's water. We would always have plenty of water if we didn't have to ship so much south.
 
When I lived in NoCal I advocated splitting the state and cutting off SoCal's water. We would always have plenty of water if we didn't have to ship so much south.

I still support southern Mexifornia splitting off of northern California. But there would be a color clash with L.A. County being so blue surrounded with so much red.

There is already a movement in the northern counties of California forming their own state because the liberal and Mexican socialist in Sacramento who only care about Mexican nationals and L.A. and San Francisco.

What I would like seeing a new state being formed that include only the counties of San Diego, Orange County, San Bernardino, Riverside County, Imperial County.

Another scenario, option #2. Every coastal county going north from Los Angeles County to Marin County becoming a separate socialist state. Let them drink desalinated sea water.

Option 3 #. Maybe the best one of them all. Build a wall around Los Angeles County and San Francisco and declaring both mental penal colonies. We could deal with Oakland and Marin County separately.
 
I say we dump everything west of the Coast Range going north up to and including San Francisco, and everything south of the Tehapis, and make a new state out of the rest. Anyone with me?

It would be a red state, BTW.

You are aware anything west of the "coast range" is the Pacific Ocean.
 
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