California really needs to be broken up into several states.
Kalifornia is a socialist country, not a State. /s The progressives are working on the other 49.. Or is that 56?
Not only 'No' but Hell No.
As if the country is going to allow two new Californias to send a total of four liberal Senators to Washington DC. Why shouldn't Texas be allowed to split up into a union of federated Texan states and send an avalanche of brand new US Senators to Capitol Hill?
There's no way to split California vertically or horizontally and come up with some new conservative state to counteract the current liberal debt monster that is modern California.
Cut in half above Santa Barbara, Southern California would just be 'Even Newer Mexico' versus 'Hippiefornia'.
Cut lengthwise, you'd have 'West California' hugely overpopulated with illegal aliens and their benevolent hippie-'Boomer overlords versus 'Eastern California' and the unpopulated desert wasteland state capitol of Barstow.
Now, if you could convince California to give to the state of Nevada the entire Sierra Nevada mountain range, well THEN we're talking.
It will never happen now, but too bad it didn't happen 20 or 30 years ago. California is mostly red by geographical area, but even the red counties have been ruined now, and they are just as depressing to live in as the blue counties. My county was a vibrant, self sustaining, productive county when I grew up, thanks to the lumber industry. Now everybody who is not unemployed and living off the government directly works for the government (now the largest employer), medical industry (almost the same thing), or Indian gambling casinos (largest single employer in my county). And the attitudes of people living there reflect the change too, and it is not good. People know when they are a productive community and producing good stuff (lumber products in our case) that the rest of the world needs and wants and is willing to pay for, versus leeching off of the productivity of others or leeching off of wealth created in the past. As a third generation native Californian this is very depressing.