Does Dionne have an email address? This will flip his lid:
Article IV - The States
Section 4 - Republican government
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a REPUBLICAN Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion [illegals, cartels, etc].
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#A4Sec4
Technically California is no longer a republic nor a democracy, but a tyranny.