Posted on 10/27/2010 11:49:18 AM PDT by RockinRight
Living in OC I would celebrate for years!
This would be the best thing for the USA in years
Any chance the dividing line is on the San Andreas fault? Maybe West Kali could just drift a few dozen feet away, so you could guard your west border better.
NY needs to split apart...
Everything south of Rockland/Orange county becomes a new state...they can have Long Island also...
“Should We Split CA into Two States? (Vanity)”
And New York. There are a lot of us who live in real Upstate NY that would cut the state off right below West Point - leave NYC and LI to form their own state. In fact, they can have all the politicians in Albany as a going-away present...
It seems as though the communists like the coastal part of calif. Are the voters/residents former serfer dudes, skateboarders, dope heads and hollywood actors who gravitate to the ocean? Maybe that is the part that will slip off next earthquake.
Clark County, aka "East East LA".
On a historical note, the notion of splitting up CA has come up numerous times since the state's inception, with splits east-west as is shown here, north-south and every combination in between. One thing to keep in mind--the large population centers are liberal, but the money and hence tax revenue are centered there also. Maintaining infrastructure on large swaths of land (think roads) with few taxpayers tends to be burdensome.
Everyone else gets to live in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties with all of the illegal aliens robbing their houses while they commute an hour and a half every day across state lines to work where the liberal Democrats run the show.
Somehow, you think that the remote NorCal counties will want to go along with your dubious plan. Trust me on this one: They want nothing to do with SoCal people, even if they do vote the same way. They'd rather be their own state of 'Jefferson'. And as long as you're breaking the state up, I'm fairly certain that a great many Central-East Californians from the Owens Valley up through Inyo-Kern would rather secede to Nevada where they belong.
You're from Maryland. Are you truly qualified in understanding California?
The state line (Between LA & Orange is close to me. There is a brick wall between two houses that is the county line LOL.
I am NOT giving up on the SoCal coastline. No way we take the hot inland and give THEM the best weather in the world. Come and TRY to get me out.
Article 4, Section 3:
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
So it's Constitutionally permissible, but unlikely in the extreme.
San Diego has ports doesn’t it?
nature will do that eventually.
The NEW ballad of Jed Clampett
Come and listen to a story ‘bout a man named Jed
Poor oil entrepreneur barely kept his family fed
Then one day he was working for some food,
And up through the crowd come a bumbling fool
(Arnold that is, RINO gold, more taxes please)
Well the first thing you know old Jed’s taxes are to much to bear,
Kin folk said Jed move away from there!
Said ‘Callyifornia’ is no place for you to be
So they loaded up the truck and they moved from Beverly
(go’n back to the Hills they are, fish’n holes, country and western stars)
Well now it’s time to say goodbye to Jed and all his kin
They would like to thank you folks for kindly dropping in
You’re all invited back again to their new locality
To have a heaping helping of their hospitality
(Redneck Hillbillies, is what the press call ‘em now,
Clingers of bibles and guns and to Obama no bow!
Nice folks Y’all come back now, ya hear?)
I don’t understand Maryland either, having lived in Ohio the first 29 yrs of life.
How about just making the Inland Empire part of Arizona then?
San Diego does have a sea port but much smaller and no rail service except to LA.
Be careful about what you wish for. They would divide the state north and south, not east and west. That would give the dems two more senators.
I am a proponent of the 3 state option. North down to SF; Central from Carmel to Santa Barbara or Ventura; South from LA to the border. It is way too populous to be one state.
I wonder if putting LA County in East California would still allow East CA to be a mostly GOP-leaning state...
How would the voting patterns fall? Would it be three Dem states?
We'll lump all of the original New England colonies at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence into one big NorthEast state called 'New England'. They only get two US Senators and whatever congressmen their population Constritutionally provides for. Then you'd finally have a unified state that's comparable to Texas or California.
I've never understood why some little jackass state like Rhode Island that's basically represented on the map as hanging off Massachusetts' nutsack like a wayward dingleberry gets it's own two Senators in congress. Same thing goes for Maryland, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, and New Jersey. Only New York and Massachusetts are really qualified to be states up in that part of the USA, but they'll have to take the little dingleberry states into their realm after my proposed merger deal.
After all, Texas and California have *wasteland* that's got a higher population than some of the piddly New England states I just mentioned, so it's only right and proper that they just get assimilated into one big regional entity that's truly representative of the way New England votes -- rather than having six or seven redundant voices in the US Senate all pretending like they're individual personalities.
There. Fixed it for you.
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