Marcus Ruiz Evans is author of California’s Next Century 2.0: Economic Renaissance, a leader of the YesCalifornia campaign for independence, and has lived throughout California including in LA, the Bay Area, Sacramento, the Inland Empire, the Central Valley, and is a Fresno, CA native.
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William Hawes: Thanks for taking the time to do this, Marcus. For those that don’t know, YesCalifornia is a budding movement for secession in the Golden State, with a rally on November 9th in Sacramento. Can you give readers some of your most compelling reasons why and how California should secede from the USA?
Marcus Ruiz Evans: The top reason is that Californians are physically separated from Americans. If you look at what’s called a “population density map” or the map of “the world at night” you will notice that America is not populated across all of its land-mass. From the East coast to about half way through Texas and from the Southern border to the Canadian border there are Americans. This is where they live. From halfway through Texas all the way to the border of Arizona/ California – there is basically no one. Yes, there are the cities of Salt Lake, Vegas, Phoenix and Denver – but when you look the maps it will show that outside of these few cities, there is no one living in about half of the land mass of America. Then at the border of Nevada/ Arizona/ Oregon and California all the way to the Pacific Ocean there is another giant population…