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  • Continuity2

    So is this really a thing, or just a really tiny fringe thing being exaggerated by the media?

    'California secession movement starts gathering petition signatures'

    http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/27/c…

    • real - someone posted the website recently.fadein11
    • Well, I'm ultimately not surprised. At this point, it would also not surprise me if more US states didn't mull this over.Continuity
    • Yep - have no idea how it works and feasible it is though. Cornwall in UK have wanted to do it for years but it hasn't happened. Obv UK is totally different.fadein11
    • Fringe thing. Secession can't be taken seriously. Not California.monospaced
    • Never happen and been "real" for a while. R's love to joke that the country would be red w/o Ca,formed
    • but then you counter w/ all the metro areas (NY, Denver, etc.) blue...basically the economy and educated.formed
    • 6th biggest economy in the world. Put a big dent in the US coffers. My Cornwall comparision was for humour by the way.fadein11
    • the country would be "dead" without California, actuallymonospaced
    • yepfadein11
    • Never happen.stoplying

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