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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The problem… or complication with this…

Is that basically every part of WA and OR east of the Cascades will … counter-seceede.

Go look up the Greater Idaho project.

There is, and has been for a while now, an effort to … have the eastern counties of WA and OR leave their respective states and join Idaho.

From a legal/constitutional perspective… this is completely unprecedented, as best I can tell this has never before happened in US history, states redrawing their own borders, via counties which largely actually have democratically voted to do so via popular referendums.

Northern/Eastern CA will possibly form into something like the old attempts at the proposed state of ‘Jackson’.

There is an absolutely huge political polarization within all these states between urban and rural areas, roughly also by which side of the Cascades

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I’ve hastily cropped that image from this source:

brilliantmaps.com/county-1992-v-2024/

So… yeah… if the governors of WA OR and CA formally seceeded and formed Cascadia? Came ‘too close’ to functionally doing that?

Well the rightwingers have an arguably legit legal counter move for that (or so they will argue, the whole point is different sides do not agree) and then basically the West Coast explodes into functionally a civil war of some kind, probably involving both partisan and ‘official’ state forces, and federal forces, roughly breaking apart along the Cascades, but it could easily be way more chaotic than that, depending on what say, forces at JBLM and Kitsap decide to do.

Let me personally tell you that Eastern WA/OR and Idaho still very, very much remember Ruby Ridge, the militia movement never died, it just went dormant till Trump, and uh, skipping up to present day, is now basically being formally recruited into ICE… ICE now has more funding than the United States Marine Corp.

Fucking yeehaw is what I very much fear would happen if either side makes significant moves toward anything resembling actual secession.

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