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Message: <blockquote data-quote="argo" data-source="post: 3800229" data-attributes="member: 5752">It's all about the water.  Agriculture, business and civilized life as we know it in the westen US is based on control of water.  California has been able to secure more than its fair share of colorado basin resources by virtue of legacy aportionments from when the resources were first divided up, reinforced by later-day political clout in Washington.  But all that presuposes the water is controled by a federal power.  In the sort of "fractured US" scenario you propose California would either have to become the imperial military ruler of the western US or else become part of a borad power-sharing alliance (probably contibuting food and high-tech toys in exchange for a free flow of water and electricity). Dont forget the electricity either, all those dams produce power as well as control water.  Anybody who lived in CA durring the Gray Davis blackouts can tell you how much it sucks to have the our power cut off by outside states (which is basically exactly what happened durring the days of "rolling blackouts").Yeah, I've thought about this before  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Hope that helps.</blockquote>