The above question comes to light in the form of two articles:
- “Six Californias? Residents poised to vote on splitting up state”, CBS News, 7/15/2014, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/six-californias-residents-poised-to-vote-on-splitting-up-state/
- “New California declares ‘independence’ from rest of state”, CBS News, 1/16/2018, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-california-declares-independence-from-rest-of-state/
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Fleeing the coop isn’t the only option for those disgruntled with the lefty coastal dominion over the whole of California.
First it was the north of the state petrified of the south stealing their water and turning them into another Owens Valley. Ex-state senator from Redding, Stan Statham (R), in the 70s and 80s, would introduce a bill at the start of each legislative session to split the state north from south. It’d go nowhere, of course.
More recently, in light of the lefty state government’s delinquency on real infrastructure and the wild pursuit of the greenie utopia, the ol’ State of Jefferson was resurrected, a union of the northern counties of California with the southern counties of Oregon.
Earlier, in 2014, entrepreneur Tom Draper floated an initiative to break up the state six ways. See the above article.
And, again, more recently, is a proposal to amputate the lefty coast from the rest. “New California” would be free of the diseased part. See the above article.
Sure, the ideas will end up in the circular file. Nonetheless, they are a sign of desperation for people still anchored to the state but flabbergasted at the iron grip of the looney left on the state.
Maybe the best option – for the country but nor for the masses beyond the Coast Range – is the looney left’s drive for secession. I hope they succeed so the rest of us can receive the refugees and say goodbye to the experiment to make the world’s largest hippie commune.
And secession’s likely result:
RogerG