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Old 01-28-2015, 08:09 AM
 
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I think it should have been split 100 years ago but it's too late now. I would NOT vote a split. There's too much history and there's a certain cache about being part of the greatest state in the USA. If we split now, we're only half as good. lol Vote down.
I know, right? What fun is it if we can't keep reminding Texas that they're still only #2?
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Old 01-28-2015, 09:38 AM
 
Location: Northern Colorado
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I'd argue even though LA is more liberal than Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, and San Diego County, I'd say it's still more business friendly than San Francisco. LA isn't afraid of growth unlike NorCal. I also feel SoCal is more tolerant of religion as the Hispanics wouldn't put up with anyone bashing their Catholic beliefs.

I think LA County is more liberal when it comes to social issues, but conservative when it comes to business.

Also, don't forget Ventura County. Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Camarillo, and Oxnard to some extent have a lot of conservatives. By amount of registered democrats, SoCal might be more liberal, but by area it could be more conservative.
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Old 01-28-2015, 09:47 AM
 
Location: California
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And I would be happy with a Banana Split!
(This topic is so very hard to take seriously, no?)
Come to think of it, so would I.
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Old 01-28-2015, 09:50 AM
 
Location: California
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As I understand it, the entire universe split at least once. With a Big Bang!
Probably political discord.
So when you say with a big bang, did you mean that as a big banana split? As you previously mentioned.
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Old 01-28-2015, 09:52 AM
 
Location: California
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I'd argue even though LA is more liberal than Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, and San Diego County, I'd say it's still more business friendly than San Francisco. LA isn't afraid of growth unlike NorCal. I also feel SoCal is more tolerant of religion as the Hispanics wouldn't put up with anyone bashing their Catholic beliefs.

I think LA County is more liberal when it comes to social issues, but conservative when it comes to business.

Also, don't forget Ventura County. Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Camarillo, and Oxnard to some extent have a lot of conservatives. By amount of registered democrats, SoCal might be more liberal, but by area it could be more conservative.
City,

I think Santa Barbara County is a perfect example. IMO South SB County is way liberal, and North SB county is more conservative, but still has it's fair share of liberals.
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Old 01-28-2015, 11:09 AM
 
Location: McKinleyville, California
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California...The land of fruits and nuts. Do the fruits go to the south and the nuts to the north, or vice versa?

I agree that the state won't split because it's all about the distribution of water. The north has it and the south doesn't, but in recent years that has changed with the drought. Neither half of the state has much water these days.
Dead on, up here in the far north part of the state, we have some of the largest resevoirs of water and get the most rain. As it is now, we have have over 100% of our rain for the year to date, but are now experiencing our driest January on record on top of the past three Januaries without much rain. All of the Trinity lake system that drains to Whiskeytown lake heads south for homes and irrigation, so does all of Shasta Lake. For Humboldt county we have Ruth Lake, but that only supplies our larger residential communities that surround Humboldt bay, it does not go south. But many of the rural towns of Humboldt, Trinity, Del Norte and Mendocino counties depend upon ground water. Splitting the state in two would never work, unless the southern state wanted to pay for the water they get from us up here. Our wealth up here is in water and lumber, but it does not stay here. It costs us less to leave our area for some lumber products then to buy it here. If Lake Shasta and the Trinity lakes were not being drained to supply the water demands of the large farms and towns south, they would fill up with the rain we do get.
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Old 01-28-2015, 11:19 AM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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I'd argue even though LA is more liberal than Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, and San Diego County, I'd say it's still more business friendly than San Francisco. LA isn't afraid of growth unlike NorCal. I also feel SoCal is more tolerant of religion as the Hispanics wouldn't put up with anyone bashing their Catholic beliefs.
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have you actually been to San Francisco? There are a huge number of religions represented there. There are Catholics in SF too you know.
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Old 01-28-2015, 12:05 PM
 
Location: Northern Colorado
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have you actually been to San Francisco? There are a huge number of religions represented there. There are Catholics in SF too you know.
What hippy drug you been smoking? I've been to SF, diff parts of the bay, and had the misfortune of having liberal classmates from the the Bay in college.

Perhaps it can be said that Bay Area residents dislike "conservative" religions.

If you mean the Bay is religious as in New age Buddhism and humanism, then yes. But when it comes to Catholics and Christians, Bay Area people can be pretty rude and religion bashing.
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Old 01-28-2015, 12:12 PM
 
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I know, right? What fun is it if we can't keep reminding Texas that they're still only #2?
Isn't Texas 3rd, behind ny? If CA split in half, we would still be 1 and 2. lol We're that good.
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Old 01-28-2015, 12:14 PM
 
Location: Northern Colorado
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City,

I think Santa Barbara County is a perfect example. IMO South SB County is way liberal, and North SB county is more conservative, but still has it's fair share of liberals.
I would even say that Santa Barbara is not even as liberal as the Bay. I think Goleta and Isla Vista are probably more liberal, but Santa Barbara still has some old money conservatives. Don't forget, that Measure P or whatever it was called, took voters from all over the county to make sure oil business stayed in the county.

I even think Santa Barbara has more Christians and Catholics percent wise than San Luis Obispo. I really regret going to college in San Luis Obispo because when you see the christian and catholic ministries at UCSB you are completely blown away.
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