Hey, we in South CA do not mind if you call Los Angeles LA. But just try to call San Francisco—Frisco up north.
Let Arnold rule in the north. We can elect anyone who would be better to be governor of South California. How about Ben Stein? he knows his numbers and he knows the film business.
You have plainly never been in Northern CA if you think SF is part of it. The North doesn't claim most of the coast, what we call northern California is on the eastern slope of the Sierras, and doesn't include Sac.
You want someone to have Arnold, you guys can have him, the south has the biggest voting block and the most liberals, not to mention a sh** load of illegals, and you steal our frickin' water too. The only place that has more liberals than the LA area is the left coast, SF, Marin County, Oakland. Sac is loaded with them also. You have a very strange attitude about the south considering the only conservative county you have is Orange Co.
The only county on the Coast that is conservative is Del Norte and it is so far north it is almost part of Oregon!
I remember a proposal to make California into 3 states (about 20 years ago) which never made it to the ballot.
If California was divided into 4 states, that would mean a 53-star flag. I don't know if it would be easy to design a flag with 53 stars in a pattern that would look nice. Maybe divide NYC (along with Westchester Co. and Long Island) from the rest of New York State and make it a 54-star flag.