For one thing the conservative resistance would be formidable. In an open warzone, there would also be much payback.
People in the farmlands still haven't forgotten what the CA leftists did to their now dead farmlands.
It would not be secession. It would look more like "The Purge".
Oh the secession drama queens are out of the asylum. Session would be peaceful and int best interest of both parties. You chicken hawks crack me up.