What should the west cost call itself after secession?

[MrCoffee]

when Washington, Oregon and California bail out of the union, what should the new country call itself?

[Bennyboy]

1. Smartland!

[SPKrazy]

2. Californoregonication

[Auggie]

3. Coolpeopleonlyland

[skygazer]

4. Betteroff

:patriot:

[Bullwinkle925]

5. Orewafornia . . . aka Yahootieland!

[KamaAina]

6. Ecotopia

the idea's been around for a while.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia#Plot_summary

The book is set in a 1999 future (25 years in the future, seen from 1974) and consists of the diary entries and reports of William Weston, a reporter who is the first American proper to investigate Ecotopia, a newly formed country that broke from the USA in 1980. This country consists more or less of the territory of the former states of Oregon and Washington, plus northern California.

Together with Weston, who at the beginning is curious about, but not particularly sympathetic to, Ecotopia, we learn about the ecotopian train system, life style, war sports, politics (the president is a woman, Vera Allwen), gender relations, sexual freedom, energy production, agriculture, education, and so on. Ecotopian citizens are characterized as free-thinking, creative and energetic, but also socially responsible and often inclined to work in team configurations. In the end, Weston becomes an Ecotopian himself.

The importance of this book is not so much to be found in its literary form, as in the lively imagination of an alternative and ecologically sound lifestyle on a greater scale, presented more or less realistically. It expressed on paper the dream of an alternative future held by many in the movements of the 1970s and later.

And while we're at it...

when Washington, Oregon and California bail out of the union

...why don't Hawai'i and Alaska get to play? After all, we do have a few decades of experience with that monarchy thing...

[Jade Fox]

16. I loved that book when I read it.....

back in the 70s.

[martymar64]

7. My vote is for Cascadia

It just has a nice ring to it.

[XemaSab]

8. There's a very fine subduction zone with a very similar name.

:D

[SeattleGirl]

9. Eastern Washington has been threatening to seceed from the

state, and form their own state called Cascadia. First started hearing about this a few years ago.

[bamacrat]

10. The New United States. n/t

[Deja Q]

11. How about Fornic Nation?

:foxcomedymode:

[DS1]

12. OfFuckWeGotStuck WithTexasandUtah

space because of DU subject without spaces rule

[Lex]

13. Earthquakeistan?

:shrug:

[Gormy Cuss]

20. Seismatistan.

Sounds more foreign, like a place where terrorists live.:)

[City of Mills]

14. GoogleLand

Google will own everything someday!

[Xipe Totec]

15. Lucky nt

[Ptah]

17. Western Arizona.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

18. I maintain that West Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania should become the nation of

West Pensyltucky

[Sanity Claws]

19. Pacifica

I think it has a nice ring to it.

[LeftyMom]

21. WeOwnYouFornia

We have all the pot, all the porn, and most of the decent beer. We'd hold the pink slips on the rest of the US in five years, tops. Less if we legalized gambling, soft drugs and hookers, and you know we would.

[philosophie_en_rose]

22. Washington

:)