Comment by toomuchtodo
10 hours ago
Blue states combined are the second largest economy in the world, just ahead of China (3rd) but behind the US in totality. California alone is the fourth largest economy. Their economy would be worth about ~$15T. Combining resources is simply good policy imho.
It will be interesting to see exactly where Texas decides to come down if there really was a split in the US. I have to imagine they would want to follow the rich blue states rather than be stuck footing the bill for Arkansas and Mississippi.
I guess they probably just try to become their own country, like they already did once anyway.
Texas is red (rural and suburban) with big dots of blue (urban).
If worse comes to worst, Texans will be fighting ourselves first.
That describes essentially every state in the Union. Illinois is red with big dots of blue.
Blue states are states where the big dots of blue are big enough to outweigh the rural red. The only major difference between Indiana and Illinois is Chicago.
Texas was Democratic 35 years ago. They also gain 100k Californians each year so becoming more and more purple.
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They need to team up and petition to be annexed as Canada's 11th province.