That’s the map I LIKE! Let them take SF and LA and the rest of us can have San Diego and Sacto. The capitol of ‘west’ CA can be somewhere in the SF Bay area — hey, how about San Fran Nan’s property?
And maybe Sean Penn can play governor. Such fun imagining the various nutjobs holding offices in a West Kalifornia.
One thing I amended since making that map - I’d probably take Long Beach out of LA County and make it the westernmost part of OC - therefore part of East California. Although it’s leftist, the port would be valuable, and the population of LB relatively small enough not to turn East Cali into a Democrat State. So East Cali still has two large metro areas in total - San Diego and Sacto, the Inland Empire, a small part of the Bay, Sequoia National Park, the Central Valley, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Tahoe.
West California gets LA, San Francisco, and Oakland...and part of Redwood National Forest. Although I’ve debated taking Del Norte County and adding it to East California.
It’s all a pipe dream.