Should California be allowed to secede from the union?

[The Mikado]

Ironically the US GDP would plummet if California left. I doubt very much we would let the blue states secede because the red states are - how to gently put this? - uneducated and less productive compared to the bluer states.

Basically axe NY, CA, and IL and the US would go from a super economy to a second rate one. 

Turn off CA's water from other western states and watch its legendary agricultural sector crater overnight. Independent CA is going to be in for a rough time without Coloradan water.

[The Mikado]

Yes. The states entered into the union voluntarily, so they should be allowed to leave it. And Obama would have still won if it hadn't existed in both '08 and '12, so it's not like Dems need it.

I agree, but that is a terrible argument. With the exception of the 13 colonies, Vermont, and Texas, the states are creations of congress. Even then Texas and the rest of the south got forced back into the union anyway.

Poor Hawaii, always forgotten.