'South California' proposed as 51st state by Republican supervisor

The Los Angeles Times ^ | July 11, 2011 | Andrew Malcolm

[Clintonfatigued]

The 51st state should be named South California, says Jeff Stone, a Republican on the the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. But the proposed 13 southern California counties that would split off from the Golden State would not include Los Angeles.

Stone told the Times' Phil Willon that the ommission is intentional and is part of a plan that would make for a new conservative Californian state.

[Caipirabob]

The DNC will fight this to the death.

Or it's not what it appears to be and is actually an attempt by the CA left to get two more democrat senators. I'm not convinced that the demograhics of the area would result in a red state if it broke free from the rest of failed CA.

[RegulatorCountry]

Divide it into inland CA and coastal CA and you’d have a conservative state inland for sure. North-south, I don’t know, but east-west would be a certainty.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Sure it can be done, if the CA legislature approved and both houses of Congress voted to admit it as a state.

You may recall that I would prefer CA to be split into 5 states, 2 heavily Dem and 3 Republican.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Democrats would still get the electoral votes of what remained of California (more than half of the 55).

There was a proposal some years back to divide California into three states. I seem to recall an article in The Wall Street Journal about it (with a map), but the people never got a chance to vote on it.

If this went through, the Angels might have to change their name again--Anaheim and Los Angeles would be in different states.

[reg45]

Chicago needs the tax base that the rest of Illinois provides. Without the rest of us to carry the burden, Chicago would need a local tax rate of at least 20%.