Posted on 02/20/2014 4:29:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
LOS ANGELES — California has reached the breaking point. Or so says Tim Draper, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who is pushing a proposal to crack the nation's most populous state into pieces.
Six of them, in this case.
California has grown so big, so divided, it's essentially ungovernable, according to a ballot initiative that could reach voters in November.
It has to go.
"Vast parts of our state are poorly served by a representative government," according to Draper's plan, which cleared a key government hurdle this week to qualify for the ballot. California residents "would be better served by six smaller state governments."
No one would dispute that California, home to 38 million people, is full of rivalries and squabbling. Dodgers or Giants. Tacos or sushi. Where water goes, and how much of it.
But the state has proven reliably resilient against attempts to split it apart, dating to the era of its founding in 1850. Over the years, proposals have suggested California should be two states, or three, or four.
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YES PLEASE!
All I need to know is which of these new states will be red and not blue, then I will start paying for moving trucks.
Knee jerk reactions are always a good idea. /s
NOTE, The proposal would divide California into:
* Silicon Valley, which would include San Francisco and nearby counties that are home to technology giants like Facebook and Apple.
* West California, which also would include the coastal cities of Santa Barbara and Ventura and of course, Los Angeles
* The state’s farming heartland would become Central California. This would encompass much of the states desert region, including Bakersfield, Fresno and Stockton to the state’s border with Nevada.
* South California ( which includes San Diego ). Also Irvine and Riverside, and stretch from the coast to the border with Arizona.
* North California would include a smaller chunk of land, with Sacramento
* Jefferson would be the most northern state, including Chico, Redding and Eureka up to the Oregon border.
While we are at it, why don’t we merge Vermont into New York and say sayonara to Senators Leahy and Sanders. Vermont was part of New York to begin with.
NOTE, The proposal would divide California into:
* Silicon Valley, which would include San Francisco and nearby counties that are home to technology giants like Facebook and Apple.
* West California, which also would include the coastal cities of Santa Barbara and Ventura and of course, Los Angeles
* The state’s farming heartland would become Central California. This would encompass much of the states desert region, including Bakersfield, Fresno and Stockton to the state’s border with Nevada.
* South California ( which includes San Diego ). Also Irvine and Riverside, and stretch from the coast to the border with Arizona.
* North California would include a smaller chunk of land, with Sacramento
* Jefferson would be the most northern state, including Chico, Redding and Eureka up to the Oregon border.
SEE MAP HERE:
Good idea. California is way too arrogant and reducing its size would reduce its reach across the country and across the world. It’d also screw up Governor Brown’s ideas for high speed rail and his plan to siphon most of Northern California’s water to LA with his delta tunnels project.
Merging? What we’re thinking of in Long Island is SECEDING from New York State. We already have a study group seriously looking at it:
See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_(proposed_state)
That alone will cause me to vote against it. I live near Ventura and now we at least have a chance of electing Republicans. LA and Santa Barbara would place that "state" permanently under Marxist control.
Do you really want my idiot neighbors to get ten more senators? That sounds like a horrible idea. Imagine ten more Barbara Boxers in Washington. I get the heebeegeebees just thinking about it.
I am all for it.
That would t happen. F and B would both be Silicon Valley, the rest of the states would elect normal people.
Would the democrats lose electoral votes?
I have yet to see a time when making government bigger was a good thing.
Since democrats now run the state, don’t be surprised when their plan is to create one large (in area) conservative state (Central Valley, desert, mountain, way north of San Fran bay... MAYBE San Diego)), and five smaller liberal ones:
1. Pelosia-Marin, (north of San Fran)
2. Free-to-do-as-you-please-no-matter-how-sick (San Francisco itself)
3. Hippie Panther (Oakland-Berkeley, east bay area)
4. El Norte Mexicana (Los Angeles basin)
5. Eco-Coastopia (Big Sur-Santa Barbara).
That will add 8 more democrats to the us senate (they have two now) and 2 possibly conservatives to the Senate.
The progressives will NEVER let this power base scrivel...
Even IF mexifornos want it to..
Remove their power from their COLD DEAD HANDS.. And nothing LESS..
Course SOME counties Could succeed... from the State and form a new State..
But the feds wouldn’t allow that either..
Cloward-Piven is brilliant the Coup D-Etat is quite complete..
America is no longer a republic it’s a democracy..
ONLY a Civil War can shake the behemoth...
Did I say (( ONLY ))..... You know.. BLOOD and everything..
wed have2-3 californias that would be republican/conservative.
at least conservatives would have representation at long, long last.
Two states. Rural California would be a red state with an agricultural and manufacturing base. Urban California would remain blue, show biz and high tech and gay.
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