The third one sounds competitive, but I gather more democrat Senators is the main point. Though this dude had a previous plan to make it into 6 states, maybe he’s just a kook.
I agree with his point that CA is ungovernable, but it’s because of the democrats and throngs of illegals and scumbags (”it’s diverse population). My solution is a 2 way split, R from D.
Auh, what do you think? How would you divide the bastard? Would you keep the OC and San Diego or give the rats/breakway Soviet Republic the entire coast (Save Del Norte County)?
If CA were to be divided three ways, it would be this way: Take the 55%’ers, meaning map all precincts in the state voting 55% or more for the Democrats in the past 2-3 elections (could go back to 2008) and string them together as much as possible and give the moonbats their special hive (Sacramento and L.A. could serve as joint capitals). The remaining precincts would then be divided into North and Southern states.
The Northern State could be that fabled “Jefferson” with a capital at Yreka.
The Southern State could be “Sierra” or “Reagania” with a capital at Barstow.
As I’ve posted before, my idea was for California to be split into 5 states, not 3 (or 6, like someone suggested a few years ago); the “state names” provided are descriptive, but hardly optimal:
1. State of Los Angeles, with all of L.A. County:
10.0 million pop in 2010, 45%-50% Hispanic, 10% black, 12%-15% Asian
16 electoral votes, 29.17% McCain 2008, 35.60% Bush 2004, 32.35% Bush 2000
(I would encourage GOP-leaning L.A. County suburbs to split and form their own county and be able to join the Inland Empire centered state.)
2. State of San Francisco Bay, with all of Alameda, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma and Yolo Counties:
8.1 million pop in 2010, 21%-25% Hispanic, 7% black, 17%-20% Asian
13 electoral votes, 24.82% McCain in 2008, 29.95% Bush in 2004, 30.64% Bush in 2000
3. State of Inland Empire, with all of Kern, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties:
6.7 million pop in 2010, 36%-40% Hispanic, 6% black, 4%-5% Asian
11 electoral votes, 46.79% McCain in 2008, 55.54% Bush in 2004, 50.70% Bush in 2000
4. State of Central Valley, with all of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Inyo, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Benito, San Joaquin, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne and Yuba Counties:
6.5 million pop in 2010, 27%-32% Hispanic, 5% black, 7%-8% Asian
11 electoral votes, 48.27% McCain in 2008, 56.92% Bush in 2004, 53.17% Bush in 2000
5. State of San Diego, with all of Imperial, Orange and San Diego Counties:
6.3 million pop in 2010, 30%-35% Hispanic, 4% black, 11%-13% Asian
11 electoral votes, 47.07% McCain in 2008, 55.86% Bush in 2004, 52.57% Bush in 2000
I can provide 2012 and 2016 presidential results in a few days (I have them in my computer at work), but they don’t look anywhere as good as this for the GOP.
My plan, developed prior to the 2012 elections, was, esentially, for comfortably Democrat California being converted into two ridiculously Democrat states (based in L.A. and San Francisco Bay) and three GOP-leaning states, and under normal circumstances the 5 states would give the GOP a 6-4 edge in U.S. Senate seats (the Dems have had a 2-0 edge since 1992) and a 33-29 edge in electoral votes (the Dems got all 55 EVs from CA in 2008 and 2004 and all 54 EVs from CA in 2000, 1996 and 1992). However, in 2012 the GOP and marginal parts of CA voted more Democrat, and in 2016 they gave Hillary hellacious victory margins. If that’s the “new normal” for California, I would oppose any effort to split it up into several states; on a related note, Calexit sounds better and better each passing day.
But I do think that we should split up Texas into four GOP states of around 11 electoral votes each, which would give us 6 new GOP Senators (and increase GOP electoral votes by 6 as well).