Here’s an interesting take on the size of Cascadia’s economy. This map replaces U.S. state names with a country of similar economic size.
The data may be fishy (New York must be No. 2 after California) but the map is an interesting way of representing the concept of global rankings. It also suggests that Cascadia should be willing to set policy that works for this region.
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I think this is the relevant reference data which does seems to show NY as #2 in 2006. But the numbers are substantially different from the map so I’m not sure what that source was. For example NY is much bigger but Cali much smaller in the BEA data.
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_state/gsp_newsrelease.htm