What’s the point? What are the political affiliations of these people who signed the petition? What’s the end game here? CA is horrible enough? Who would want 6 of it?
Oops. *CA is horrible enough.
There are plenty of solid red counties here, they’re just not as populated as the deep blue counties, therefore receive little voice when the state is taken as a whole. Optimisitically this would give voice to the red counties, and in effect would remove one blue state from the union, replacing it with 3 blue, 2 red and a purple (Sens. -2 D, +7 D/+5 R, or a slight % edge to R for the whole of the Senate.) That being said, I don’t necessarily have a favorable opinion of this move, six parts may be too many and like you, I have to wonder about the politics, the motive, of the people behind this push.