Well, all you Cali kids out there, the big debate at my school involves the hypothetical that California withdraws from the Union. I was wondering what people (preferably people who don’t go to a very liberal school in Venice) think.
We think that for succession to work, California would have to carry oregon, washington, alaska, hawaii, nevada, and arizona to be successful. Actually, popular sentiment around our school is that Bush would be glad to see us go, as it would give him and the republicans a VERY solid grip on the US government.
Interestingly enough, California (though currently in an economic slump) is rated as the 5th largest economy in the world, if it were a country, just above france.
Leave the union, less welfare stress on the rest of us, you lazy bums! lol, but seriously, how long do you think you would last. The US would ban trade with you, and i doubt many countries would trade with you. We would probably launch a war to take you back, its a pointless endeavor, unless all of the FIRST states succeed, then we could form the United FIRST Nation of Engineering. That would rock!
Um the U.S. pacific fleet is stationed in Califorinia along with a vital number of military bases supporting Pacific operations (assuming they haven’t been emptied of personnel thanks to this whole Iraq issue)…war, very long and bloody. Only Texas may succeed from the union, its intheir state constitution I believe.
How about splitting the state into Northern and Southern California? I vote for that…then the evilness of the northern lingo won’t infiltrate down here
Well, in my ongoing struggle to get kristina to come to terms with the fact that us Nor caler’s will continue to say “Hella” no mater what, I realized that we really do talk different than everyone else, even other californians. Anyone know why this is?
*Originally posted by Cory *
**Well, in my ongoing struggle to get kristina to come to terms with the fact that us Nor caler’s will continue to say “Hella” no mater what, I realized that we really do talk different than everyone else, even other californians. Anyone know why this is?
*Originally posted by Doanie8 *
**How about splitting the state into Northern and Southern California? I vote for that…then the evilness of the northern lingo won’t infiltrate down here **
/me seconds
And speaking of lingo, the “Valley” dialect still has some influence all across the nation, even though it’s generally dead, even in the Valley.
I don’t know, I live in the valley north of “the valley” and I know a lot of people who still talk like that. I know that I say “like” far too much and whenever I go to conferences type things around the country they point it out. I can slip into it if I really want, such as in Tigerbolt just to annoy the northern california people.
Oh, and on a sidenote: Hella Good is the worst song ever! I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again, I’ll scream and change the song everytime it comes on the radio and I even ran off of the dancefloor at prom. Oh, how I hate that song.
Heh, If California broke away from the U.S. with President Warhawk in office, he would wait a day and send troops in and overtake California again. Then it would be run by the U.S., Puerto Rico would become the 50th State and life would be ok again
<edit> So basically, California would be back in the Union, W/O representation in Congress and still have to pay tax up the wazoo, so I think California would be better of staying </edit>
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