Frankly, I would give the whole state of California back to Mexico. It would be addition by subtraction.
Not so fast podner. North of SF and in rural areas California is a damn fine state.
Unfortunately good folk are leaving in droves because of the taxes. That's why it's getting more liberal. My husband and I are definitely not retiring here. It would be financial suicide. For now we stay because it's an employment hotbed and we're doing really well.
This may be an unpopular opinion and I realize the frustration with the politics of SF (which I share) but wishing a terrorist attack on any US city is, in my mind, an unAmerican thing to say. O'Reilly is a fair-weather friend and a perv and I have never liked him-- so there I said it. Flame away :-)