Pat Buchanan: Is secession the solution?

[Famous Mortimer]

This is a very popular position on the alt-right. They are very big on California declaring independence. Those who envision a "white ethnostate" also think New York is lost and will have to become a separate polity of some form. It's obviously mostly LARPing but it's interesting to think about.

If California (and all the liberal coastal states) broke away, they would take most of the rich people but they would also take most of the immigrants. So you would be left with a Democratic States of America that basically looked like Dubai with a bunch of rich White people and millions of indentured immigrants and a Republican States of America which would be overall poorer but actually have much more equitable distribution of wealth, sort of like Portugal or Bulgaria.