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I've been a proponent of splitting up California since at least 2000. Given the current conditions of California, the need to split the state is more apparent that ever.

When they created California in the 1850s, they carved such a huge land mass because few people lived there at the time. They never would have let California get so big as a single entity if they knew what it would become. No state should be able to cast 55+ electoral votes for a RAT presidential candidate — that's such a huge avalanche of votes it disenfranchises the popular vote of about five million Americans who are the minority party in that state, and most of the other big states COMBINED aren't even enough to override California's choice of President (I'm in the FIFTH largest state in the union, and we only have 21 electoral votes, less than half of California). Plus with Pelosi/Boxer/Feinstein, you have the Bay area running the rest of the state, even the much bigger city of Los Angeles.

SoCalPol makes a good point that not everyone on the southern California coast is Marxist — indeed there are several GOP strongholds there that have a huge population, like Orange County and San Diego. The northern California Coast IS uniformly Marxist though, except for those unfortunate souls in the county of Del Norte.

The best solution would be to combine the “split the coast from the inland” proposal with the “split the northern half from the southern half” proposal, and combine them so we'd have THREE states: North California, South California, and Sierra.

The results would be as follows:

STATE OF NORTH CALIFORNIA
Capitol: San Francisco
Humboldt
Mendocino
Sonoma
Lake
Napa
Martin
Yolo
Contra Costa
Alemeda
San Francisco
San Mateo
Santa Cruz
Monterey
San Benito
Santa Clara

STATE OF SOUTH CALIFORNIA
Capitol: San Diego
San Luis Obispo
Santa Barbara
Ventura
Los Angeles
Orange
San Diego
Imperial

STATE OF SIERRA:
Capitol: Fresno
Del Norte
Siskiyou
Modoc
Shasta
Lassen
Trinity
Tehama
Plumas
Sierra
Butte
Blenn
Colusa
Sutter
Yuba
Nevada
Placer
El Dorado
Alpine
Amador
Calaveras
San Joaquin
Stanislaus
Tuolumne
Mono
Mariposa
Merced
Madera
Fresno
Kings
Tulare
Inyo
Kern
San Bernardino
Riverside

North California would quickly become the Massachusetts of the west coast — a complete Dem monopoly over the state — but they would no longer be able to decide the President and statewide for 1/5th of the nation's population. They would have a much more modest population. South California would probably lean Democrat overall due to the huge population in Los Angeles, but it wouldn't be total RAT rule like its northern counterpart. It would send several good conservatives to Congress and you'd probably see the occasional good GOP official elected statewide. It would be tiny in size, like Vermont, but makeup for that with it's huge population, giving it the kind of clout New Jersey has. Sierra would be a modest sized state like Colorado, and lean VERY strongly Republican. It would be like 60-80% GOP officials with the occasional “moderate” Democrat getting elected to something. We'd create a new GOP stronghold in the west that would be up there with Kansas in terms of GOP voter strength.

None of the new states would have Sacramento as the capitol. I'm actually thinking of splitting up Sacramento county between the states of North California and Sierra. North California would get the communist RAT infested areas of the county, it's that geographically doable. ;-)

If you think that plan is radical, you should see what I'd do with the rest of the county if I had the power. I'd buy up Baja California from Mexico and turn it into a non-voting territory. I'd sell the area south of Phoenix (the Gandsen purchase) BACK to Mexico so we'd have a new border with Mexico entirely along the Gila River-Rio Grande. I'd merge North Dakota and South Dakota into one state called “Dakota” with a decent population of around a million people. And we have to do something about the poor GOP minority in weirdly shaped Maryland. I think I'd give tiny useless Delaware all the Maryland areas east of the Cheskepeare Bay, like Salisbury. That would make them a halfway decent state in land area, size, and population, and might be enough to swing Delaware into the Republican column. The rest of Maryland would get Washington D.C.’s population as part of their constituents. Communists need to be united.