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Tim Draper Wants To Split California Into Pieces And Turn Silicon Valley Into Its Own State
Tech Crunch ^ | 12/20/2013 | Gregory Ferenstein

Posted on 12/21/2013 2:50:19 PM PST by JerseyanExile

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By eyeballing that map, looks like the result of such a disunion would be two red states, two blue states, and two purple-ish ones.
1 posted on 12/21/2013 2:50:19 PM PST by JerseyanExile
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I would love to bust that state up. It has too much say in the presidential election with the leftist cities pulling the whole state even thought there are a lot of conservatives in other parts. Plus, breaking it up might create more opportunities for conservative Senators.


2 posted on 12/21/2013 2:53:44 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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Which is much better than all presidential electoral votes going to Democrats each election.


3 posted on 12/21/2013 2:54:51 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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By the logic applied, it should be five. The purple state needs to be split in two with the coastal portion going with the yellow “Silicon Valley” and the inland with the red mountain “state.”


4 posted on 12/21/2013 2:56:49 PM PST by Carry_Okie (0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
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The north can be called “Grass land”.


5 posted on 12/21/2013 2:59:36 PM PST by gfbtbb (Ladies and Gentlemen, we are on our own.)
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Pray for earthquake, might do the trick for ‘em.


6 posted on 12/21/2013 3:06:41 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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This is pure fantasy. Everyody knows that there can only be one California, and that it looks like this:


7 posted on 12/21/2013 3:06:53 PM PST by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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So we'll have 12 liberal Rat Senators from CA in Washington instead of 2 now.
8 posted on 12/21/2013 3:07:32 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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Also, this will be a nightmare for the transportation and ports industries.


9 posted on 12/21/2013 3:09:28 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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So we'll have 12 liberal Rat Senators from CA in Washington instead of 2 now.

Exactly. It's a bad bad idea.

10 posted on 12/21/2013 3:09:34 PM PST by BipolarBob
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If you cut out Los Angeles and the Bay Area you would have a generally conservative state in California. I guess the folks up in Silicon Valley are tired of supporting the leaches down south. Well, welcome to California you liberal tech wizzes!


11 posted on 12/21/2013 3:11:49 PM PST by dowcaet
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I refuse to live in a state called ‘Silicon Valley’.


12 posted on 12/21/2013 3:12:12 PM PST by skeeter
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leeches


13 posted on 12/21/2013 3:12:30 PM PST by dowcaet
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It would be preferable to living in one called Mexifornia.


14 posted on 12/21/2013 3:13:26 PM PST by dowcaet
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I thought they were only going three.


15 posted on 12/21/2013 3:14:40 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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I say go for it.
I bet there’s a whole lot of people in Northern CA who would be happy to be rid of Southern CA.
Kind of like the way a lot of people in CO wish Denver would go take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut.


16 posted on 12/21/2013 3:16:51 PM PST by servo1969
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Wow, I don’t drink vodka, but I buy it sometimes. I won’t be buying Absolute ever again. I won’t let hubby buy it either. That’s extremely offensive.


17 posted on 12/21/2013 3:18:36 PM PST by jocon307
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The U.S. should trade Vermont, Massachusetts and a state to be named later to Canada in exchange for Alberta. :-)


18 posted on 12/21/2013 3:22:29 PM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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Two Progressive, two (mostly) Conservative, and two toss-ups. That’s a much better deal than the current arrangement.

Same applies to a number of other states. Ohio (my state) should be three, PA should be at least two (probably three), NY should be two, and on and on.


19 posted on 12/21/2013 3:24:44 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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There can be no effective state boundary enforcement in the street grid which ties together Los Angeles and Orange Counties. A boundary would have to be located elsewhere.


20 posted on 12/21/2013 3:26:28 PM PST by research99
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