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With luck, California will just fall into the ocean.




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Californians Plan Secession
By: Decomposed
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Thu, 10 Nov 16 10:28 PM
Msg. 13930 of 47202

This again? I do wish they'd just get off their arses and do it. GO!!! I'm not sure who'd be changing their diapers at that point, but it wouldn't be my problem.

If they wanted to divide the country into four chunks and take any two consecutive quadrants, I'd let them have their choice. But we'd get Alaska (they wouldn't know what to do with it anyway.) They could have Hawaii. The only catch is that they'd ALL have to leave. Every liberal. Gone. And no coming back. Wouldn't that be awesome?
 


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November 10, 2016

#Calexit: California want to leave the US after Donald Trump’s election win

Ashitha Nagesh for Metro.co.uk

If you’ve looked at the electoral results map, you’ll notice there’s a bit of a stark difference between the red and the blue bits.

That massive blue block on the left – encompassing California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington state – stands out quite a bit against all of the red.

So it may not be a huge surprise that people living in that Democrat-voting block are now looking at other options – specifically, secession.

Since Donald Trump’s electoral victory was first announced, #Calexit has been trending on Twitter, with distraught Californians looking to form their own state.

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So could it actually happen?

Possibly – there is no specific ban on state secession in the US Constitution. In fact, there’s nothing on secession in there at all.

Plus, there’s a bit of a legal loophole.

In the case of Texas v White, the Supreme Court said:

When Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States.
Did you notice that last bit? ‘Except through revolution or through consent of the States.’

If enough Californians want it, there’s a chance it could happen.

And this is far from the first west coast secession movement in the US – the Cascadia secessionists have long campaigned for a separate state of Cascadia, which mostly spans the Pacific Northwestern states.

http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/09/calexit-california-want-to-leave-the-us-after-donald-trumps-election-win-6245665/


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