California falls into the ocean. What happens to US politics?

[magellan01]

@Werekoala

Lex Luthor suddenly becomes a billionaire.

For the win!

[thirdname]

If California falls into the ocean, it will create a giant tsunami that will capsize Guam.

[njtt]

That’ll be the day I go back to Annandale.

[thelurkinghorror]

Maynard James Keenan for President, if we can’t resurrect zombie Bill Hicks.

All my family would be dead. Nevada will finally get a major sports team. And Oregon will get another one. Agriculturally, America wouldn’t be screwed, but it’s be a big speedbump.

@Captain_Amazing

You’d also see a big increase in business at Nevada ports.

The Sierras will make that hard. So if that doesn’t pan out, you can always move to… Port Bakersfield.

[Fishybreath]

There would be a whole lot of pissed off hungry people all over the country. Cite: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/

[Darth_Panda]

It might imporve LA’s chance of getting their football team back.

[ekedolphin]

Are we assuming California falls into the ocean and everyone in the state dies? Or do they get out in town and move to a different state?

And wouldn’t a catastrophic earthquake be more likely to simply turn California into an island rather than evaporate it completely? Suckas gots to know.

[Measure_for_Measure]

@aruvqan

I think if I were going to start an industry, I would place it where the people need jobs and the local political unit could be convinced to give me a short tax and fee break. I would also pick a right to work state because I absolutely detest the whole ‘if one worker is union then everybody HAS to be union’ which takes away the right to work without being forced into a union. [why yes, bitter much … all that money in dues for absolutely no benefit.]

And there are talented people in the various movie crafts who do not happen to live in California. cough Vancouver and New Zealand cough

1. Individuals don’t start an industrial conglomeration. They just happen. (One of the classic ones, btw, is a town in North Carolina that specializes in carpets. Once one carpet maker started a business there, it attracted other carpet makers. And so on.)

2. Since we’re discussing an industry with a lot of high priced labor, you will need to be located in a city with lots of amenities. That doesn’t necessarily exclude right to work states, but it does imply that Jerkwaad, Alabama wouldn’t be a likely locale.

3. New Zealand is a little remote to become the next movie center. Vancouver would be a real possibility. Except it’s on the west coast as well, so if Washington State takes a dunk, Vancouver probably would as well. Paris and London are other possibilities. Still I suspect the continental US would retain some movie center, though it very may well be a shadow of pre-aquatic California’s Hollywood.

[Ethilrist]

@ekedolphin

Are we assuming California falls into the ocean and everyone in the state dies? Or do they get out in town and move to a different state?

And wouldn’t a catastrophic earthquake be more likely to simply turn California into an island rather than evaporate it completely? Suckas gots to know.

To me, the big question is how much of a dropoff are we looking at on the Nevada coastline? If it’s like God came along and removed California like it was a jigsaw puzzle piece, there’s a 6500 foot tall cliff on the Nevada border, so that’s not much use to the people in Tahoe Bay who want to have a seaport. Great view, though. On the other hand, if the state just sort of cracks off and bends down to the west so there’s still dry land on the western slopes of the Sierras, but all of the coastline & central valleys are underwater, that’d be a bit different.