If what I read and hear from people leaving the place is basically right, then California is marginal for being economically and/or politically viable at this point and we need to either retake it or let Mexico have it, one or the other. Apparently you've got rich people and peasants in the place and little else, with 5% of the people paying half the taxes and 70 or 80% of the people not paying any taxes at all. That says if a very small number of people were to decide to leave, a permanent state of pandemonium would ensue. Likewise a significant blow to the stock portfolios of that same minority such as has occurred with thedot-com collapse is now causing a catastrophic budget deficit. Nothing like that could happen if, as in previous times, you had middle-class people working in factories which payed decent wages paying taxes in the place.
Likewise when you have a bill to restrict welfare benefits to illegal aliens passed by an overwhelming majority of the state and then shot down by a single Klintler judge ('we don't need no stinkin democracy...') and the reconquisters doing high-fives and talking about that being the last gasp of white America in the place, the only thing I'd know to do that didn't involve civil war or insurrection would be to get out a map of the US and start looking for other places to live.
There is some middle-class justice in all of this. Middle-class movers are going to become fabulously wealthy as masses of people move from LA. If ever there was a business opportunity of a lifetime for a low-tech job, moving people out of LA has got to soon be on the list of the top ten.