Re: CHAT: Californian secessionists (was Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German])

Quoting David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

> In a message dated 10/1/01 8:20:44 PM, trwier@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
> writes:
>
> << Is it true that a group was organized several years ago promoting
>
> Northern California's secession from Southern California? >>
>
>     There have been several proposals, the most recent of which was to
> split it up into three: Southern California, Central California and Northern
> California.
Interesting.

> Needless to say, Southern California would remain the
> richest and most populous state in the union, and both Central and Northern
> would quickly become two of the poorest.
Oh, I doubt that.  Texas (ca. 20.1m) and Florida (ca. 16m) are growing
way faster than California. Southern California would probably be cut down to
third or fourth (after Texas, New York, and Florida). Even Illinois, which
is barely growing, has about 12m people.

Also, it's true that California currently has a gross state product
greater than that of France (around $1.1 trillion IIRC), but that would
almost certainly fall to somewhere around only the size of Canada's
GNP (around 600 billion).  Also, if you consider per capita income,
I believe Connecticut is already the the richest state in the Union,
with around 54,000 dollars per capita in yearly income. (It might be
New Jersey; in any event, it's because those states are mostly
suburbs of New York City.)

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"If a man demands justice, not merely as an abstract concept,
but in setting up the life of a society, and if he holds, further,
that within that society (however defined) all men have equal rights,
then the odds are that his views, sooner rather than later, are going
to set something or someone on fire." Peter Green, in _From Alexander
to Actium_, on Spartan king Cleomenes III

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