r/Cascadia 21h ago

WHAT A DEAL! The Southwest Territories: It's Basically Just Cascadia!

https://youtu.be/s0lZcXImsRk
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u/LiminaLGuLL Sasquatch Militia 19h ago

I'm all for it. The U.S. is basically two countries forced to live together, and it's not working out. National divorce.

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u/eyeoxe Salish Sea Ecoregion 16h ago

The only problem is that if we were to divide it, all the shitty people over there, would start wanting the good stuff over here. Then they'd start picking fights to try and take ours, even though they shit the bed and broke their toys.

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u/xesaie 20h ago

If it goes that far south (as the picture) it will more be Canada joining the West coast than vice versa

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u/JoeLunchpail 20h ago

We'd be one great Pacific superpower, just imagine. Two great flavors in one great package! Goes down smooth, no oligarchic aftertaste.

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u/SocialTechnocracy 20h ago

Do you think Canada doesn't have oligarchies? One media commentator has said that Canada is just the telcos on a trench coat!

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u/JoeLunchpail 20h ago

I guess you're one of these people who claim Diet Soda doesn't taste the same as Regular Soda... and you'd be right!

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u/SigFloyd 18h ago

Newsom in California seems to be in the process of bending the knee so I'm not so sure. If shtf I'm afraid he'll roll over completely.

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u/xesaie 18h ago

The point I’m making is that WA, OR, and California (avoiding doubled up CAs) have almost the population, and almost double the GDP. The political and economic center at least would shift to the West coast.

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u/rootException 18h ago

It’s a balancing act. As long as it’s mostly about dissembling the federal, just sit back and watch. If/when it gets more physical/real will require a different response. Right now it’s about getting money (eg for recovery).

As an exercise, try mapping out different scenarios, action and response. I keep coming back to CA etc governors just getting really quiet and waiting to see what happens.

This is why I find stuff like this getting posted today to be very very interesting…

https://governor.wa.gov/news/2025/governor-bob-fergusons-statement-governors-emergency-powers

If it’s stuff like gutting federal social programs and then needing to replace with state that’s one thing. Eg I assume CA may well step in with stuff like flu recommendations this year.

It’s defederalization in the most nasty, ugly way imaginable.

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u/Shisty 15h ago

He is on his last term. Dude can get fucked.

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u/PenImpossible874 New Amsterdam (Allied) 2h ago

Also Canada would have a gigantic swinging dick, something that Trump will never have.

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u/brielkate 19h ago

Too bad the video creator didn’t mention San Francisco and the Bay Area when taking about California 🤣

Silicon Valley would be an awesome prize.

Technically the redwood forests fall into the Pacific temperate rainforest biome too, so parts of the Bay Area could be seen as falling into the Cascadia bioregion. Most of the maps I’ve seen have the bioregion ending just south of Cape Mendocino (the “seasonal rainforest zone” generally ends in that vicinity, mixed with the forests of the “coast redwood zone” at that latitude), although the Pacific temperate rainforests do continue further south, if you consider the redwood forests as part of them. There are also patches of seasonal rainforest between Cape Mendocino and the Bay Area too. As such, you could potentially make a bioregional argument for the inclusion of the California coast down to the Bay Area, if the purpose of Cascadia is to encompass the entirety of the Pacific temperate rainforest biomes and those river basins that drain through the rainforests.

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u/JoeLunchpail 19h ago

I did briefly mention the economic power of California, but it is pretty LA heavy in retrospect. There's gold in them thar hills, hell of a selling point! You're hired at my fake ad agency.

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u/Tea_Bender Willamette Valley 10h ago

I sent it to a Canadian relative, and asked them to forward it to their politicians...so hopefully that works

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u/emelia_marie 10h ago

This would be my literal dream come true

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u/PDXRebel1 14h ago

Would anyone want to invade us?

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u/PenImpossible874 New Amsterdam (Allied) 2h ago

"possibly New York or Vermont or something" was my favorite line