Posted on 03/17/2008 7:43:42 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan
Something worth dreaming about.
I’ve always thought there should be a North California and a South California.
Isn’t San Francisco a Communist State?
Can see the bumper stickers now:
“I didn’t leave California, California left me”
Betcha money if this were tried today, it would be a People’s Commune filled with nothign but hippy-dippies?
BTTT
I always get a kick out of seeing the barn sign on my way up to Seattle from Sacramento. I never knew the history behind it though. Beautiful countryside out there!
"Franklin", lasted four years and later became part on TN.
Ya let one of these rabble-rousing groups form their own State and pretty soon there will be more. My guess is there are 3 potential new States in Colorado alone all being pretty much ignored by Denver (way South, way East and the Western slope).
Can’t say that I blame them one bit. But, for each new States we’d have two more Congress-critters. The old state would lose Reps while the new States would pick them up. Odds are these new States, most in relatively remote areas, would be considerably more conservative and well.... we just can have THAT now can we!
California should be three states:
(seriously: all three would still be in the upper tier for population)
Norte California: The Southern third of current California. Los Angeles, Hollywood, and the Metropolis surrounding LA. In reality, quickly merging with “Baja California” to the south - thus the new moniker.
Urban Northern California. This new City/State should have a new age name of some sort. Perhaps it could be named Starchild.
Rural California: Central Coast from Santa Barbara, to Monterey, and inland to Nevada.
That would turn things around.
Way things are now, the state will implode soon.
We in Northern California would love that. We'd settle for taking the City of Sacramento since the rest of our state would make up for it.
But the question would be who gets stuck with the Bay Area, which is neither Northern or Southern California. Which is why there's always been a discussion of three states.
I wish my state could split. The east side is far more conservative than the west although the west is generally dominated by King County, electorally speaking anyway.
Isn’t there a well-established procedure for creating a new state?
Can liberals in Sacramento force people to stay, if they don’t want to?
Build a legal “Berlin Wall”, to keep people from escaping?...
Except in California east/west is now a bigger divide than north/south.
California needs to be broken up and those states that comprise Greater Massachusetts should be consolidated.
Three may not be enough pieces to break California up into. Besides, there are decent, civil parts of Oregon that make up part of the Klamath basin and should be part of the “Jefferson” - Arguably everything south of Lesser Portland. It would be cruel to leave the Inland Empire in the malicious hands of Greater LA.
80% of California is a great place. The problem is, Greater LA, SF/SJ and Sac have enough population to dominate the good parts.
Yes. I spent some of the best moments of my life there in the wilderness. Now...that I’m far away...I relive it in my dreams.
That’s a cliche, but it’s at the root of what’s wrong with California - and why people are leaving.
Liberals have enough votes, to not only dominate the lives of everyone in a massive state from a couple looped-out leftist enclaves, but they also can throw national elections.
They run Hollywood, Sacramento and San Francisco, and as everyone knows, they simply know what’s best for all of us.
Sanctimonious dweebs.
Seriously. I bet it would work. I really do.
I remember reading about a proposal to carve California into 3 states some years ago (late 1980s or early 1990s?). I think the line dividing the northernmost state from the central state would have run a little bit north of Sacramento. It never got to the voters for their Yes or No.
Be sure to stop at The Olive Pit on the way—that’s a must. Then at Mount Shasta, take time to soak yourself in Indian Hot Springs...a natural outdoor jacuzzi, far out in the wilderness...or spend a day or two absorbing the sunlight at Squaw Meadow on The Mountain... And tell everybody I miss ‘em...!
40 years ago, the Flower children flocked to Northern Kalifornia. They began their communes, smoked their pot and talked to the sea lions to communicate.
NOW, the flower fogies have evolved. They tend their communes. They smoke their pot and they mumble to the sea lions to communicate.
So much progress.
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