I realize that secession is unlikely, but if the West Coast was to secede, I think I’d be moving!  As much as I love Arizona and especially the Joshua Tree desert, the many tourist and Muslim hating right wingers and the absence of any appreciation of “good” food in Mohave County is starting to frustrate me.  All our supervisors are Republicans, do-nothing corporate shills, supporting idiotic ideas like uranium mining and ruthless corporate farmers plundering our water and clearing the desert of established Joshua Tree forests with trees literally hundreds of years old.
No place is perfect, but it sure is good to see that there are still people who care in other parts of the country:
… Sonoma joins five other California counties that have already passed bans on transgenic crops: Mendocino, Marin, Trinity, Humboldt and Santa Cruz.
Proponents say the ban is necessary to protect the county’s organic fields from cross-pollination. …

Source: GMO Crops Headed for Ban in Sonoma County | Election 2016 | KQED Science