- Wait! Will they be states of the US or of Mexico?
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Posted on 02/20/2014 10:57:21 AM PST by Texas Fossil
Thank you for that information.
Good laugh out of that one. I'm wondering what you are going to call Modoc and Lassen counties??? The far north eastern part of cali.
The area around San Francisco should take the name “Sodom”, and the area around Los Angeles should take the name “Gomorrah”.
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Old Californian of many generations chiming in- that’s pretty much spot-on, Chief.
The LA and SF metro areas dominate the whole of the state. The red areas can go pound sand. Moonbeam pretty much said this when somebody brought up the Jefferson State movement. He said something like “You want to live under Republican laws so badly? Well, there’s this place called Arizona”.
Valid point.
So the federal government and the Supreme Court just made it up as they went along to get the desired results.
Basically yes. After the Civil War, the Supreme Court, now under Chief Justice Salmon Portland Chase, sprinkled holy water on a lot of irregularities generated by the war.
Tit for Tat. Split Texas into 10 states and send 20 Conservative Senators to DC.
Texas will never divide.
It was forged in revolution and war.
That bonds a people in common interest.
That is not gone away.
Is Gomorrah spanish??
Actually, the word “Gomorrah” is Hebrew for a name that has been lost in the mists of time. The original name may have been Sumerian.
If San Diego, Imperial, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Inyo counties formed a state, the Republicans would be very competitive in it...at least until the demographics flipped it.
Kind of like John Roberts did with Obamacare.
As a conservative from another state, I’m against this. Instead of having two rotten Senators-for-life, we could be stuck with a dozen rotten Senators-for-life.
If the point of this was to maximize Dem Senate power, then they would be included in Farmville.
“But someone in Silicone Valley thinks it is a good idea.”
The word is Silicon, not Silicone! We’re talking about chips, not tits!
Splitting California into six states would require the approval of the US congress, something which is not likely to happen. On the other hand, Texas was admitted to the Union in 1845 by an act of Congress which allowed the state to split into as many as five states. There were in fact two attempts to split off areas of Texas, one to create a state of Lincoln in 1869 (comprised of the area south and west of Texas’ Colorado River) and in 1915 the State of Jefferson, from the Panhandle.
Obviously, neither attempt succeeded. Opponents argued that any split would still require Congressional approval, while divisionists countered that the 1845 act admitting Texas amounted to a pre-approval.
According to wiki, divisionism is today considered something of a fringe movement. However, the thought of eight more Texas senators is certainly more appealing than that of ten more California senators.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_divisionism
Neither will happen.
Basically, if California splits up there will be a good chance of 3 new conservative states. Better than just 1 libtard state.
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