Yes. give the Americans a chance to stay.
In fact I’d love for the decent counties to be allowed to form a new state right now.
Slight problem with now rat leaning Alpine and Mono counties being separated from the rest of the rat counties.
Alpine is so small (1,200 people) and Mono not much more (14,000+) that they’re just a drop in the bucket, politically-speaking (and their Congressional and legislative representation is Republican). If they were more substantial in population, they might be more concerning, otherwise keeping them in a reconfigured California wouldn’t be a problem.