Proposed Ballot Initiative to Divide California Into 3 States Cleared to Collect Signatures

KTLA ^ | 11:27PM, October 26, 2017 | Tracy Bloom

[BenLurkin]

Northern California would encompass almost the entire upper part of the state, including the Bay Area and Sacramento; California would include the Los Angeles area and extend along the coast through Monterey County; Southern California would include everything else, including Orange County, San Diego and Fresno, a map of the proposal showed.

Southern California would be the most populous of the three states, with 13.9 million residents, according to California’s Legislative’s Analyst’s Office. Northern California would have 13.3 million residents, while California would have 12.3 million.

“The citizens of the whole state would be better served by three smaller state governments while preserving the historical boundaries of the various counties, cities, and towns,” Draper wrote in a statement of findings, according to the Times.

[BenLurkin]

Not how I would do it.

[BenLurkin]

[DoughtyOne]

Sheer lunacy.

Get the Conservative parts of the state free and clear of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Marin County...

[ealgeone]

I think this gives the dims 2 to 4 additional sinators. Not a fan.

[BenLurkin]

Agreed.

100%

[gunsequalfreedom]

That has got to be the world divide. Who came up with those lines?

[gunsequalfreedom]

A major (liberal) population center in each of the three sections. How convenient.

[rigelkentaurus]

I thought the coastal rat region was going to secede? And good riddance too.

[Steamburg]

Looks like Kalefornia wants 6 Democrat Senators instead of two. They are also gerrymandering the population to re-balance the house. Not even remotely reasonable. On the otherhand, if we disband California and make it three territories with no votes in national politics....

[BenLurkin]

Exactly

[al baby]

So Free Republic will be behind enemy lines

[DIRTYSECRET]

Combine the 6 New England states into 1 and I’ll go for it.

[Steamburg]

It looks like FR already is.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Combine the 6 New England states into 1 and I’ll go for it. Make Hawaii a protectorate-end statehood. Puerto Rican independence.

[Jim Robinson]

Keep the borders the way they are. Just stand by and wait for the “Big One” to drop LA and SF into the Pacific.

[nickedknack]

Expel the illegals and get rid of Gov. Moonbeam 2.0, and this idea would have even less support than it does today.

[laplata]

ping

[doorgunner69]

Nor would I. What happened to Jefferson? Those counties sure as heck want nothing to do with the Bay area liberal ones.

[Cobra64]

Yup. Dividing line should be north of Sacto.

[bagster]

I dunno. Seems like the "Southern California" section might go red. And maybe the "Northern California" section can overwhelm the gay area. Our main problem is the coastal region which it looks like is almost all contained in the "California" region.

It has potential. I'd have to look at one of those red/blue maps and crunch the numbers to be sure.