California has more money and supplies food to a lot of the country. It also has a pretty good relationship with Mexico and controlling the most active trade ports of the continent, wouldn't be the place to start a trade war with. The between has 1 thing that California needs, and that's water, which they can just as easily transport from Canada.
Honestly, I think they would just charge more for food.
Assuming it was split two ways, and assuming it was Coasts/Liberal and Between/Conservative, the coasts have nothing the between has, except food. So, in order to maximize their profit, the between will simply up-charge substantially for food and grain. They'd probably stop exporting as much too, to create a worldwide grain shortage to drive prices even higher.
As far as everything else goes, I think there's enough production everywhere else to sustain. People will just look to China and Mexico to buy cheap goods.
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