Cal 3 divides the state along lines that make geographic, cultural, and political sense. The population is divided roughly into thirds. North and South are still very large states, and what's left of California would be a medium-size state.
Posted on 04/16/2018 10:03:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Tim Draper is a rich man, but he understands he doesn't know it all. His first attempt to divide California into six states made little sense. So he went out and got some people who are experts on the subject. The result, Cal 3, is a political masterpiece. This could work.
When California was admitted to the Union in 1850, it had only 92,000 people, most of them scrambling for gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. That's why California's county lines are so screwy. Los Angeles County now has 10,000,000 people. Alpine County has 1,000.
Cal 3 divides the state along lines that make geographic, cultural, and political sense. The population is divided roughly into thirds. North and South are still very large states, and what's left of California would be a medium-size state.
In order for this to work, it will need to get a majority not just of the total vote. Majorities will be needed in all three prospective states. Looking at this map makes me think that could happen, for one important reason: partisan politics.
The Democrats in Washington, D.C. are going to love this idea. Now California has two Democratic senators. Under Cal 3, it will have four Democratic senators from ultra-blue North California and California. The two senators from South California will be up for grabs. Democrats could pick off one of them or even two. The Democrats will not lose Senate seats, but they might gain one or two. For a D, what's not to like? Plus somebody gets to fill these new Senate seats. People's eyes will light up.
If the Democrats win control of both House and Senate this year, they would have an incentive to support Cal 3. The backing of President Trump can be negotiated.
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Ain’t gonna happen......................
Moved out just a few months ago.
What makes them so sure that Sacramento will be willing to diminish its power by 2/3's?
And while not stated above, I believe they need a supermajority in both houses of Congress for this to pass. If not initially, then after Trump vetoes it.
Based on the map it looks like libs would control the new northern state and the coastal state. How is this a win for anybody but the rats.
The problem here is that the Constitution doesn’t really specify any method to make this work, and I think thirty of the states would presently deny California the privilege.
The other side of this discussion is if you allow them to do it....why not allow North and South Alabama to also exist? Why not allow Alaska to be broken up into two states? Why not allow Rhode Island to be broken in half?
There’s a whole bunch of debate here....things really left over from the 1760 era, and I doubt seriously that Jefferson would have sat there and imagined 50 states, and 100 Senators existing.
Article IV SECTION. 3.
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State 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 con- cerned as well as of the Congress.
All three remain de facto Mexican colonies.....
I can’t see the powers that be in CA allowing this. Yes, more Senator’s but the only reason a Dem has a shot at the presidency is due to the automatic 55 electoral college votes from CA. They get almost 1/5 of the needed votes without even trying. This would break things up enough so that they’d have to at least fight for all of those EC votes - moving funds away from other battlegrounds. It would only take a part of them to vote Republican to make it virtually impossible to have a Dem POTUS.
If they break up into 3 states, I don’t think they automatically become states. They have to petition Congress. In the meantime, would California have any representation in Congress, since the old California no longer exists?
We’ll get at least 2 new pub Senators, and they’ll get maybe 2 new ‘rat Senators.
I vote nay. Just wait until “the big one” splits off and drops SF to LA into the Pacific.
Nope.
Using the proposed county groupings for NorCal, Cal, and SoCal in the initiative, and using the 2016 Presidential election results as a proxy of how each state would vote for a Senator, we would end up with 6 Kamala Harris type Progressives in the Senate. And while some are hoping that this measure might strip off some Electoral votes for the GOP candidate, that won’t happen either - in fact the Dems would end up with 4 more EVs.
2016 Presidential Election results by proposed “3Cal Split”:
Nor Cal: Clinton 3,402,343 - Trump 1,464,637
Cal: Clinton 2,934,624 - Trump 1,057,331
So Cal: Clinton 2,413,666 - Trump 1,957,594
Dead on arrival.
This is a trap. The primary divide is urban coastal liberal vs Rural inland conservative. Even at that the inland cities are a challenge. Sacramento County for example is reliably liberal. To overcome any defiance in souther California, they’d just import more illegals into Orange and San Diego counties. This plan will just create 6 rat Senate seats instead of 2
Right, California Dems might like the idea of having more senators, but any breakup of the 55 Electoral votes that automatically go Democrat every cycle would basically destroy any chance of a Democrat president for the foreseeable future. I can’t see Sacramento agreeing to that.
The only real solution is a 2-state solution that others have proposed - LA and SF in one state along the coast, all of the inland portions, northern and southern counties as another state.
We need to be careful about cheering this on. Splitting into three states would give California three times the number of Senators, probably more congressmen, and three separate electoral college entries. Depending on how the borders are drawn, we could be inviting more leftists into the process.
Sacramento is not going to give up its stranglehold - nor are Democrats going to cede 55 EV.
It could easily backfire on them by creating two new GOP states.
That’s why its DOA.
California’s state constitution delegates the ‘consent of the legislature’ clause of the US Constitution to the people of the state if they pass a state constitutional amendment via a referendum.
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