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But they didn’t go very deeply, if at all, into why that should make a difference.

While I traveled around the state recently, giving talks to promote my newly published book about California’s history, it was a rare stop where I didn’t get a question about whether California should secede from the union in order to inoculate itself from the depredations of the Trump administration.

At that time, China didn’t rank in the top fifth, though it was scuttling upward.

“We didn’t set out to be producers,” David says.

“I didn’t want to fall back into that, especially as an adult,” she said.