[Centurion2000]

They really should split California up into smaller states.

[Sacajaweau]

Not before they lop off NYC from the rest of us "Upstate New Yorkers" who are being royally scr****.

[savedbygrace]

Art IV Sec 3 requires the Consent of the State legislature and the federal Congress for that to happen.

[dufekin]

Okay, here's my solution
MOJAVE CALIFORNIA--Kern, Kings, Inyo, San Bernadino, Riverside, and Imperial counties (Bush won 52-44)
(Inherits all of California's Colorado River water rights)

SOUTH CALIFORNIA--San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties (Gore won 54-42)

CALIFORNIA CENTRAL--Tulare, Mono, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, El Dorado, Yolo, Sacramento, Placer, Sutter, Yuba, Butte, Colusa, and Glenn, Counties (likely Bush)

ALTA CALIFORNIA--Del Norte, Siskiyou, Modoc, Lassen, Plumas, Sierra, Nevada, Shasta, Humboldt, Trinity, Tehama, Mendocino, and Lake Counties (likely Bush)

and finally, inheriting all of California's debt...
CALIFORNIAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC--Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Solano, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Benito, and Monterey (toss-up between Dims and further-left parties, but every county went Gore in 2000)