Cascadia Explained

What if it were? It already is. But ¿what maybe if we got serious about diversion of a third of the outflow of the Colombia River to California, and high-speed lev-grav train service from San Diego to Juneau, and Internet plebiscites....

Secession is perhaps too harsh a term for the gradual, but complete, dissociation through individuation and autonomification which, I for one, would propose as the natural and easy route to sovereignty for the western states. Have I said that enigmatically enough? I mean, of course, for the states, each and severally, to assume all the functions of the federal government quietly, and, as it were, surreptitiously, before the waning powers-that-be realize that they've been usurped.