Evidently so.
Surely there is no way this will fly.
But the is California! The land of Fruits & Nuts. But there are a lot of real fine Conservatives entrapped there too.
“The average Russki, son, don’t take a dump without a plan.”
This is all about getting 12 Senators instead of 2.
Call them anything you want but Stupid and Poor doesn’t describe them.
I have lived in Kalifornia (on-and-off) since 1947. I currently reside in Riverside County. This county, and several others, trend Republican. We have large land areas, but the Los Angeles and San Francisco metro areas outnumber us in population and votes. They vote Democrat. Those two metros control the state government and policies.
The Supervisor of Riverside county has been trying to break away and form
“South California” for a few years. It would exclude LA county, and it would be predominantly red. Moonbeam Brown wouldn’t be able to take from us to subsidize his more loyal constituents in LA and SF.
Breaking up isn’t going to happen, because it would benefit conservatives much more than liberals.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I have always thought that Boulder County Colorado and Travis County Texas should be one state.
Gee why split the state? Those certain counties look to be under democrat control so what’s the difference. You would not gain anything except more democrat fools.
The map for this looks to this Californian designed to keep 5 of the segments democrat, giving possibly on conservative district as a bone.
To counter,
Divide Texas into 12 states. Divide Alaska into 3 states.
Wait! Will they be states of the US or of Mexico?
Tit for Tat. Split Texas into 10 states and send 20 Conservative Senators to DC.
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.
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