California Secession referendum in 2018?

[rob in cal]

   It looks like an initiative petition will be starting to try to get an initiative on the ballot in 2018 which if passed would trigger a follow up California independence referendum in early 2019.  I confess to liking the idea to an extent. There are obviously tonnes of logistic, economic, social, military, legal roadblocks and complications involved.  Still I think it might actually be a healthy situation for California to go its own way and try out its own solutions.  I think it might have a more conservative political impact for California and the remaining US.
   On immigration for instance a California government might want to switch to a point system which favors highly educated and skilled workers, and might look long and hard about how many new poorer and uneducated people we want coming into an economy that is already called the "hour glass economy". 
   I wonder if there were any Scottish Tories who voted for independence in their recent referendum. I remember reading about the argument that an independent Scotland would have made the remaining UK politically more conservative (which seems obvious), but also would have moved Scottish politics to the right as well.