What if California seceded from the US?
What if California seceded from the US?
- April 8, 2019
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, via BBC, April 8, 2019
“We have to go back historically, to something like the 1890s post-Civil War period,
to find politics in the US that are anywhere near as bitterly polarised as we have
now,” says Bernard Grofman, a political scientist at the University of California,
Irvine. “Polarisation in Congress is at levels we have not seen in more than 100 years.”
For the full story, please visit http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190221-what-if-california-seceded-from-the-us.
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