A reverence reference . What a beautiful term . <| sep |> Battletoads wasn ' t bad per se , just horribly calibrated like most games of that era . <| sep |> Hell yeah , I ' m in salt lake blazing not too far ! <| sep |> Well thanks . Now I have to click to see <| sep |> California is a breadbasket . It produces 12 . 4 % of the nationwide agricultural output , more than their share of the nation ' s population . The Republic of Texas would be in trouble on the other hand and New York would be , well , worse off than Ethiopia . But seriously , this isn ' t really an issue . California and New York can easily trade . Markets work and resolve problems . The issue with a lot of the middle of the country is that their lifestyles are subsidized . The coastal cities are extremely economically productive . The federal government takes a cut of that largesse and redistributes it to poorer inland regions . If you eliminated that transfer of wealth to the Trump states , places like California and New York would be a lot wealthier still and the inland areas would really deteriorate .