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Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November ballot
California's 168-year run as a single entity, hugging the continent's edge for hundreds of miles and sprawling east across mountains and desert, could come to an end next year — as a controversial plan to split the Golden State into three new jurisdictions qualified Tuesday for the Nov. 6 ballot.
If a majority of voters who cast ballots agree, a long and contentious process would begin for three separate states to take the place of California, with one primarily centered around Los Angeles and the other two divvying up the counties to the north and south. Completion of the radical plan — far from certain, given its many hurdles at judicial, state and federal levels — would make history.
It would be the first division of an existing U.S. state since the creation of West Virginia in 1863.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:53AM (2 children)
Yep, those two Texan senators can whup ass all over the six from the Californias, until voting time comes.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @12:30PM (1 child)
I'd guess that most of California's money is concentrated in SF, LA and SD so might not make a difference.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @04:52PM
The Santa Clara valley is more commonly known as Silicon Valley. As of when I left in 1996, they were still pretty conservative there too (problem was pretty much all of California was conservative with the exception of the SF, LA and SD urban zones, but their population dwarfed the rest of the state.)
Efforts to break up California have been going on as long as I can remember (and I am 51.) As a kid, the rallying cry was from "tree-hugging hippies" who complained about LA (and the farmers in the central valley) "stealing our water" from the north. Back then this was the state that elected Ronald Reagan as governor, so its funny to see that even though the guys pushing for the breakup and the political majority of the state have shifted, the constant cries to break it up continue!