[CasualSuperman]

The conclusion for this article doesn't follow from the argument.

> California's crumbling roads and bridges sometimes resemble those of the old rural South. The state's public schools remain among the nation's poorest. Private academies are booming for the offspring of the coastal privileged, just as they did among the plantation class of the South.

> California, for all its braggadocio, cannot not leave the U.S. or continue its states'-rights violations of federal law. It will eventually see that the new president is not its sickness, nor are secession and nullification its cures.

Broken down roads have nothing to do with Trump's suitability for the presidency, nor secession.

> [California] hosts the largest numbers of impoverished and the greatest number of rich people of any state in the country.

Well, given that it has the largest population, I would expect it to have the highest numbers.