California will save the U.S.?  Potemkin would do a better job.  I have a salmon troller and there are no one, two, or three year old California salmon in the ocean in 2017 to speak of.  Most of the fish caught so far are 4 and 5 year old adults,  double the size of 3 year olds.  But catching the survivors of one or two past fishing seasons is no more than a road to extinction, which California would like because then fish issues would not get in the way of unrestrained water use and derby style farming.  A gallon and half  of water to raise one almond nut.  885,000 acres of almonds.  Every almond you eat helped to extirpate salmon from the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Klamath rivers.  An almond is grown by first killing salmon.  Worse,  the subsidized irrigation water is diverted from  salmon streams to grow subsidized cotton to be shipped to Asia to be made into clothes exported from slave labor factories to the U.S. market.  

California is the  boil on the butt of the West Coast.