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20. Bejaysus, not this again

Short of a nuclear catastrophe, this will never happen.

And it certainly wouldn't be peaceful. California, which outsiders think of as entirely Blue, has its fair share of alt-right, white-nationalist, KKK, Nazi groups, sovereign citizens, and all of them heavily armed and dangerous. You think they'd go along quietly?

We already had a nutball Calexit plan that was supposed to go on the ballot -- the leader had an address in San Diego, iirc, but his office was in (wait for it) Russia. California Republic, riiight.

Then another that involved splitting California into 3 states. It got hotly debated at good old DU, where people thought we'd get 6 Democratic US Senators out of the deal. On the contrary, the two inland states would vote very conservative, yielding 4 GOP Senators from there and 2 Dem Senators from the Coast.

Show me where there is any legal, Constitutional, provision for secession from the United States. It was already tried. It didn't work.

As for peaceful partition with people choosing to relocate: get yourself a book on the history of the partition of India and Pakistan.