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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 stretch611 on Friday June 15 2018, @01:44AM
Even if California voters agree to this.. it will requite a majority...
Then the governor, which in CA means a Democrat Governor in all likelihood) would need to approve it. And seeing how this is a big tax shift, it will not be easy for the govenor to approve.
If this happens, it needs to be approved by congress. With todays partisan bickering, what are the chances that the Senate will vote to add 4 new senators.... CA basically has 2 Reliable Democrat Senators now... the Republicans will fight tooth and nail to avoid creating two more reliable Democratic Senators for the unreliable chance of 2 toss up seats.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P