However, in reality I don't think it's the responsibility of those who choose to live in responsible regions to bail out the people who made the conscious decision to move to a region that is uninhabitable for large populations.
They still live in America, so they still need water from the country. Would it matter if they all lived where you do, or where they do?
If anything the Southwest should either adjust to be sustainable in the environment or be abandoned and the population relocate to realistic regions.
Again, do you think about your logic before it spills off your hands? You really advocate this? Are you ok with America plunging into a depression the world has never seen? Unemployment probably upwards of 40-50% as nearly 100 million people move and lose their jobs and homes?
Maybe if we thought more about logistically sound places to live rather than having warm dry weather year round, we'd be better off as a country
The reason crops are grown there is because they are crops that grow really well in the sunshine and the rest of America demands them. It's not the californians creating that demand on their own, it's you and your fellow people where you live.
The rest of the country is complicit in the problem. Get the rest of the country to boycott all that shit and boom! No more problem. Farmers are going to try and make a living the best way they can.
This issue would arise regardless of where the people in California lived because America only has so much water for all its people. It really doesn't matter where they are within America.
You have a very closed world view. You're like the guy seeing it snowing and not believing in global warming. It's a metaphor, I know you don't actually believe that specifically but your thoughts on water issues within America, and their causes are just as ridiculous, naive, and ignorant, as those.
The problem in California is a result of buying habits of the entire nation creating massive demands for products there which require water. The people actually living in California aren't the problem.
It's the market that is set up in America as a whole.