I ran across this Facebook post today. One would never think of remapping North America, but when the incoming President of the United States threatens Canada,  Greenland, Panama and what other countries he might come up with next, this kind of thing is inevitable.

Honestly, I would rather live in California and be part of Canada than to live in a pseudo-theocracy or oligarchy – whatever the right wing is now trying to drive our country to be. Nobody in this country would have thought this way a few years ago, but when the President, who is supposed to be a uniter of the people, drives people apart, this is almost inevitable.

Ironically, it reminds me of a post I wrote over four years ago, called: Pacifica – Let’s Create a New Nation.

My point then was tongue in cheek, but now I am not so sure. Since the statistics have changed since then, I thought I should refresh the numbers and re-publish a current post here.

In the age of Trump, where he continuously slams and attacks California, Oregon and Mexico, and where he is starting to pick fights with Canada, I think we should take a different approach.

I think we should form a new nation, called Pacifica. Some people have called the California secession the Calexit. We should invite Oregon and Washington to join us.

Then, for good measure, we should also invite Baja California and British Columbia to join us too. There is a good chance they might be interested. This would be the map of the new nation Pacifica:

We would have six states, named from north to south:

• Columbia – we would drop the “British” part.
• Washington – the current Washington State
• Oregon – the current Oregon State
• Jefferson – that would be what is now California north of the Bay Area
• California – Bay Area to the Mexican border
• Baja – current Baja California and Baja California Sur.

Our capital could remain Sacramento (in Jefferson State), but could also be Portland, Oregon or Seattle, Washington.

We would be the most diverse people in the world, with significant Asian and Latino populations.

To make the economic case, this is a chart of the current population and GDP of the component states:

Pacifica would be the 4th largest economy in the world with a $5.4 trillion economy, with a GDP per capita of $87,708. It would be one of the leading industrialized nations in the world.

Many of the leading tech companies, and the largest and most valuable companies in the world would be in Pacifica, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook) and Boeing. A few years ago I listed Tesla and SpaceX here, but they have seemingly moved their headquarters to Texas, even though much of the manufacturing and engineering is still done in California. Silicon Valley would be right in the heart of Pacifica.

Alaska and Hawaii would always be welcome to join Pacifica if they so chose.

We would have great forests in the north in Columbia, thousands of miles of pristine beachfront property in Baja to fuel a real estate boom on the peninsula never seen before (I sound like Trump here…) Tourists from all over the world would flock to Pacifica’s southern peninsula for vacations in the sun.

Given our massive economy, great weather, and enormous natural resources, we would have an unprecedented economic boom, and with a population of only about 62 million in our large country, we would welcome immigration.

Refugees coming into Pacifica through the deserts of the Southwest from Idaho, Nevada, Arizona and Mexico, would always be welcome, and we’d issue guest worker visas for them if they wanted to get jobs in Pacifica. We’d have a guest worker program that would provide a path to citizenship within five years of residency.

I am ready to start drafting the constitution!