This is slightly related; It may not be tomorrow, next week, or next decade, but eventually, there will come a time when climate change makes living in the west and/or southwest prohibitively (or increasingly) expensive. I'm not talking full abandonment often espoused by preppers, far from it. People will continue to live in the west, it's not going to disappear. However, it will become cheaper by orders of magnitude to live and do business elsewhere in the country.
The biggest reason for this is that fresh water will be at a high premium. They're already experiencing drought issues in the west and southwest due to climate change, and I suspect places like Las Vegas will be the first to turn into a ghost town.
Many people mistakenly believe that we can pump water around the country where its needed. While we have the technology, infrastructure and motivation to do it, we don't have the legal authority. You see, a few years ago, the Great Lake states and 2 Canadian Provinces signed the great lakes water compact. It's a (federally) legally binding contract which forbids exporting the water from the great lakes out of their respective states. In short, if you want cheap water, you're going to need to move back to the midwest/north east. I'm 1000% confident that the "rust belt" will rise again. It's only a matter of time.