The Californians Inspired by Catalonia, Brexit and Scotland

For Marcus Ruiz Evans, Brexit was a political epiphany. “Yes, the pound dropped, there has been a lot of hardship, I get that,” he conceded when we met one recent morning in Fresno, northern California. “But what we saw was: ‘Holy shit, you could actually do it.' It went from just theory to showing a modern nation can do this legally.”