Secession would require a US constitutional amendment passed by two-thirds majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and then ratification by 38 state legislatures. To demonstrate how real the threat is, it offers two very possible scenarios: an exit from Texas rooted in abortion politics, and a gun rights clash that takes California out of the U. The word is an acronym that means exit from California, which is based on similar currencies such as Grexit and Brexit.
And while the United States is a minor force in the world, Californians and people from America's three very different nations seem happier. However, unlike the Civil War in the United States, there is no fundamental question like slavery that stokes the rift, and most scholars agree that there is too much shared identity between California and the rest of the United States to imagine a scenario in which war breaks out. If Trump wins, I fervently hope that California will separate, and I will definitely be on that side of the border when that happens. This is not the first time the group has collected signatures to pressure California to break away from the rest of the United States, taking with it its rich tech titans and 40 million residents.
That anger led to a cold civil war, in which California's elected leaders openly challenged federal officials and laws by banning most weapons. And it makes it clear that if Californians vote to remain in the Union, the state will be placed, at least temporarily, under military rule. Californians consider illegitimate the president who seeks to arrest the governor for her defiance because she lost the popular vote in an election marked by voter suppression. California is the largest state in the union by population, and its exit would radically change the political playing field in the United States.
Intense political divisions in recent years have created campaigns encouraging individual states, including California, to leave the union. According to World Bank figures, California would be the fifth largest economy in the world between Germany and the United Kingdom, if it were an independent country. There have been hundreds of attempts to separate California from the United States, all with very little chance of success.
