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 Frazzled wrote:

Possible, but the New California Republic would have its own needs in that regard, and with all that expensive infrastructure and experienced employees already in place, its not like these companies would just be gone overnight...especially with all those new markets that would open up with access to such information and industries.

CA leaving would be a gigantic issue for the US federal govt in this regard given the insane amount of classified development IP kept in the state. Far more of an issue than anything physical. All of a sudden the complete techincal package for the F35 being available would certainly be an issue

All that IP and all those people are leaving before Cali even secedes.

Hrm, in such a hypothetical event, I'd be surprised. Data is copied and recopied, stored in many places to prevent loss, and accessed by many and with many available connections. Ensuring that it leaves a geographical location both physically and in terms of electronic access for something like that would be practically impossible, especially with so much telecom and data stuff in CA. Likewise, the people would be another major issue, many might leave, many might not. Pulling twenty thousand drone engineers out of CA when many may not want to leave would be problematic for instance. Its these kinds of things that make civil wars so messy.

Well...I dont know about it all being desert, but I do know that Fresno is just...awful. Only marginally more tolerable than...Bakersfield *shudder*.

Yea. I drove up to Fresno once on a day trip lark. I drove through it not realizing it.

Nothing of value was lost

Hrm, in such a hypothetical event, I'd be surprised. Data is copied and recopied, stored in many places to prevent loss, and accessed by many and with many available connections. Ensuring that it leaves a geographical location both physically and in terms of electronic access for something like that would be practically impossible, especially with so much telecom and data stuff in CA. Likewise, the people would be another major issue, many might leave, many might not. Pulling twenty thousand drone engineers out of CA when many may not want to leave would be problematic for instance. Its these kinds of things that make civil wars so messy.

They are US citizens working for a US company which would be leaving. They would just be part of a herd of people bailing out. I reference Pakistan / India as a more extreme example of the population movements as they separated. Having worked with more than a fair share of them, they were some seriously patriotic peoples.

EDIT: The wife and I would still like to take the wine train when we retire (whats that flask hubby, that doesn't look like wine...)

India and pakistan had major ethnic and religious issues behind that in ways CA would not, and had both sides actively pushing people out. With CA, many may want to remain in CA, the US govt would have no way beyond their paycheck to compel them to leave, CA certainly wouldnt be trying to get rid of them, and many of these companies operate internationally anyway. Looking at Europe over the lasr hundred or so years, when developments such as this took place, in most instances, unless forced to leave by the new govt, people generally stayed where they were and everything there came into the possession of whatever new government was in place, particularly the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Soviet Union.

That said, again, I wouldnt ever expect this sort of a thing to ever become close to reality.