As you may know, there are Cascadian, South Canadian, and other separatist movements, the latest of which is:
 http://www.fuckthesouth.com/
(I must suggest here that economic separation must be easier to accomplish than legal separation. For example: What if all of Cascadia, or the "United States of Canada" for that matter, started trading on the Canadian dollar instead of on the US dollar? The cultural context for a common use of Canadian coinage already exists: "we don't take Canadian Pennies" can as easily be changed to "we take Canadian here" or even "we take ONLY Canadian cash here." What are the legalities involved in this type of currency policy for businesses?)
But with rumors of Rossi leading in the Governor's election in Washington State, (and with an Evil-Robot/Barbarian having been elected governor in California,) I really question if this is an issue of state vs. state. It is more like county vs. county. It is "Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, SanFrancisco," NOT "BC, Oregon, Washington, California." Here's why State-level separation isn't going to cut it:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/
Migration or Immigration to Canada is a real possibility:
http://www.canadianalternative.com/
But actually being a citizen of the world's biggest problem, is a real opportunity for activists to change the world for the better. Running away from the United States probably won't change things here.
(I do see the threat of mass-exodus as having political-leverage potential. If the Liberal half of us took our resources and skills north of the border, contrary to popular belief, the conservative half of us would be screwed.)
Do we have to take a more local, communitarian approach? Let's take the critical survival-issue of universal health-care for example: If the City of Seattle had universal single-payer health-care coverage, progressives would move there, and conservatives would move out. Are we are moving to an age of city-states, or perhaps even smaller-scale, less formal communities?
http://www.shadow-government.org/
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