[central_va]

Like I said that's big talk. You unionist are damn sure aren't you. I'll bet not one thing happens militarily if CA secede. Nothing at all. With a whimper.

Nobody is going to die to keep a state IN the union.

[WMarshal]

Yeah, we are full of talk but just make sure we don't have to visit Virginia again you secessionist twit:

[norton]

If California seceded by itself it'd be part of Mexico before the next election cycle.

Three states make sense, and avoids the issue of secession (hesitantly, I have to agree that secession is out of the question). It would add one liberal state and one conservative state (pending ongoing leftification of the north west).

I only have two concerns;
1 - would the split have any provision for exchanging "hostage" citizens between Jefferson and the Californias? (I'm not real happy here as it is). And,
2- Would Jefferson have adequate sea port facilities?

The author must be from San Francisco, he seems blind to huge liberal influence of the Silicone Valley - part of his benighted northern CA segment.
So Cal has it's proximity to mexico while today's central California is overrun with technical/academic/urban liberal elitists, plus the home grown druggies 'Frisco is famous for.

A final benefit to the three state option is that the US would only have to sell off a third of the territory when mexico made their move; I'd hold out for enough reparations to finance a well armed border militia for ten or twenty years.