Reflection 4: #calexit—Life in the Independent Republic of California

For many, an independent nation of California has long been a dream. That dream inched a little closer to reality with the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Trump’s consistently antagonistic relationship with our state helped spur the “Yes California Independence Campaign,” commonly also known as “#calexit.” Though organizers eventually halted the initiative prior to the 2018 election (they later returned with a new plan), it was the first organized effort for the state to secede from the United States. How would you feel about California leaving the Union to become an independent nation? Can you envision switching your citizenship from American to Californian?  What would we gain (and what would we lose) if a Republic of California came to be? Likewise, how would you feel about living in the state of Santa Clara or Riverside or Humboldt? Which counties (and cities) would be winners and losers if counties became Californian states? Though it is not likely to happen anytime soon, if ever, speculate what life would be like as a citizen of the Republic of California?

Cite at least two of the following in your reflection:

• "Secession 2020? Sigh. Here’s Why it Shouldn’t happen Even if It Makes the Ballot" (Sacramento Bee)
  
  
  Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article209845689.html#storylink=cpy
• "The Case for California Succession" (AlterNet) 
• "An independent California Isn't That Wacky of an Idea" (Salon.com)
• "California Will be Even More Incredible if We Secede" (Sacramento Bee) 
• "California Really Has What It Takes to Secede" (Foreign Policy)
• "Should California Secede? How the State is Politically Out of Step with the Rest of the Country" (Los Angeles Times)

 Required:

• MLA Style
• 500 words
• Works cited 

Due: Thu 2.28