If it wasn’t for California, George and Lennie would have become Mormons.
Or there might be more locally produced, since they would no longer be competing with cheaper produce from a Federally watered desert. There’s an amazing amount of fallow farmland in the northeastern US.
Go for it, then; see what happens.
There’s not even an amazing amount of Northeastern US.
Once global warming kicks-in, the Great Lakes region will become the bread basket (or fruit basket depending on the degree) of the US…
Polluted standing water, for the “win.”
So we’re comparing a smaller area with good natural rainfall to a larger area of desert with some of it watered by expensive elaborate systems to grow water hungry rice and alfalfa? I grew up in the lush green east, and was shocked when I went west and it was brown except for a brief period in the spring.
Tomacco FTW!
If it weren’t for California, we never would’ve had this cultural treasure:
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