I know people who live in CA central valley. They believe climate change is a conspiracy because of how the water is handled.
State gives subsidized water to rich assholes who sell it for a profit to anyone who will take it. It gets sent to water grass in the middle of the desert in LA, it gets bottled and sold back to us, it probably even gets sold to other farmers.
I actually have a friend who works for the state aqueducts. He knows people who have seen them opening the gates and dumping fresh water into the bay to create artificial shortage.
Then all the small farms go out of business because they can't get water to put on their crops, and the state government says they need to raise taxes to protect the environment.
Those taxes then go to the people supposedly building a railway through the middle of the central valley. People who are using their rail project as eminent domain authority to buy farms from farmers who are already on the verge of bankruptcy from taxes and expensive water. We suspect the railway will never be built because all the tax money is missing.
You wonder why they want to form the state of Jefferson?