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.
(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.
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.
No problem. The property taxes from L.A. county finance a lot of what is paid for in this state. They want a split? Fine, they lose our money.
California needs only restore the rights and responsibilities that accrued to local government (counties) prior to 1960. Just 50 years ago. The state can still control the licensing of vehicles and the credentialing of professionals, but all else falls to counties and municipalities including most all property and sales tax revenue. .
This is an old issue in California, but the proposed split has always been north-south. This is the first time I have seen a coast/inland split. Given state demographics, it would have the effect of creating an ultraconservative East California and a West California that would be more like Venezuela.