Posted on 02/25/2009 2:40:44 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
A former state legislator is reviving the old debate that two Californias are more easily governed than one.
Conservative Republican Bill Maze is harnessing the ire of San Joaquin Valley farmers and others as he stumps for splitting the 13 coastal counties stretching from Los Angeles to Marin from California's other 45. To that end, he is selling sponsorships in his nonprofit California Farming Industries.
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If you are one of them, I truely feel bad for you.
Can we do that in NY? I would love to see NYC separated from Upstate...
I have been calling for a CA split for years.
Northern and Southern would make sense, but Outer and Inner would be better politically.
that would negate Schumer and Gillibrand.
Pennsylvania would benefit from a split as well.
Looking at it at a map, there are like three or five liberal counties, the rest are all conservative.
(1) Forming a state within a state is illegal under the Constitution.
(2) Such a plan in CA just isn't feasible, unless we're looking at a pure East/West split of CA. The logistics isn't there.
Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Take the coast, keep it, please! This would be the best thing that has happened to the San Joaquin Valley for many decades.
Hmmmm....before Obama is through we may have 57 states.
I would love to see Upper Peninsula of MI be it’s own state. Technically, they’re not a part of MI, it’s their own land mass. And plus they’re not being properly represented by Lansing anyway.
If you are one of them, tell the Census people no one lives there.
Deprive CA of electoral votes.
They had tried unsuccessfully to split it horizontally. It was called the State of Jefferson.
California’s problems begin with the voters.
There’s no fix for stupid.
Yeah...they’re my senators. I would be happy to see them go.
At least give “inner” part of Northern CA - they need a port/access to the sea.
I’m in the coastal county closest to the middle of the map that is red...
Hmmm... this map should prove helpful in deciding which state to move to when CA collapses under the weight of its government.
“(1) Forming a state within a state is illegal under the Constitution.”
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Well, not exactly...
...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.
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...but it still ain’t a gonna happen...
They'd have to stop that. Doesn't NYC require something like half of the surface water for the entire state? Seems to me I read that somewhere.
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