From: BakusaiTenketsu | #010
Whoever wins... Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma all lose.
As an ex-Californian myself, I think they would lose to Texas, especially in a ground war. It wasn't specified that military would be involved, so I assume just based on the inhabitants alone, Texas has the upper-hand.
I'd imagine a silly hypothetical like this would try to take all of a state's resources into account, and I believe that California has more military bases and a larger military population than any other state in the country.
As for the general populations, the gun-toting Texan cowboy stereotype means little when the population discrepancy is just that great. Texas may be a Republican state, but John McCain got more votes in CA than he did in TX despite getting his ass kicked in Cali. It's that much more populated. I'm sure it has more guns as well.
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