/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10021202
To add on to your post anon, rural communities are almost entirely propped up economically by large cities. First off, metro areas tend to contribute net positives to federal taxes whereas rural areas are a drain, for a host of reasons including increased military base presence in rural areas, which acts as a form of welfare for the local community, and through farming subsidies. Conservatives tend to live in rural areas and tend to be vocally against welfare, but these rural areas are the biggest beneficiaries of federal welfare in the entire country, at the expense of liberal metro areas.

Even on 4chan it's a meme that California is a mistake that shouldn't have happened...? But yet it's the fifth largest economy in the entire world, bigger than the UK, and could do fine on its own if it had good trade agreements with the rest of the states, which those states would need since their technology is entirely dependent on Silicon Valley, and Seattle as well, so the west cost metropolis in general