California is also in a great geographical position for commerce. It’s ports and airports dominate the western seaboard of the U.S. A huge chunk of international trade from Oceania and Asia comes through (and goes out of) the state.
On the eastern seaboard, no single state dominates like Cali does.
Well, if New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, DC, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida all merged into one giant stated, they’d have the same thing.
It’d be interesting to see how much money flows through California, compared to all the states I mentioned. I think California would probably still come out on top, if just by a little since that is where most, if not all, of the cheap Chinese, etc stuff, lands after crossing the Pacific.