Should California split into multiple states?

[majoun]

Originally Posted by RichPeru63

LOL!! Yeah, now that might be something Obama might try to achieve during his presidency. There has already been talk about Washington DC becoming a state. Then he could try to persuade Puerto Rico to be another state, along with the Virgin Islands. Then splitting California into 5 states.

Not fond of the idea of NYC statehood or splitting up Florida and Texas?

[18Montclair]

Population
Texas 23,904,380
Southern California 23,418,460
New York 19,297,729
Florida 18,251,243
Northern California 14,874,227
Illinois 12,852,548
Pennsylvania 12,432,792

[majoun]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

Population
Texas 23,904,380
Southern California 23,418,460
New York 19,297,729
Florida 18,251,243
Northern California 14,874,227
Illinois 12,852,548
Pennsylvania 12,432,792

Nobody from San Luis Obispo County and VERY few people from Kern County would ever want to associate themselves with Southern California. They'd join Northern California.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by majoun

Nobody from San Luis Obispo County and VERY few people from Kern County would ever want to associate themselves with Southern California. They'd join Northern California.

I'm in northern California and if I had a vote, I wouldn't want to associate my state with the bay area. It votes like L.A. only kinkier!

[brianguy]

Originally Posted by roanoker 4

Your state is a big mess...Think of something quick! Just stop picking on the gays out there and you guys will be better off.

thanks, we'll get right on that.

[brianguy]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

Population
Texas 23,904,380
Southern California 23,418,460
New York 19,297,729
Florida 18,251,243
Northern California 14,874,227
Illinois 12,852,548
Pennsylvania 12,432,792

yeah what he said. but slightly less after we evict the illegals

[brianguy]

here's where I first heard about the idea, though he's got the divisions all wrong geographically:

» Fixing California’s Problems Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.

and a good website exploring the geographical issues regarding splitting the state into three, and what to do about them:
Three Californias Rationale

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Split it east west. Here's the border:
1) Start at the SD-OC county line, at the Pacific. Follow that boundary to the East.
2) Follow the OC- Riverside county line north, to the San Bernardino County Line.
3) Follow the OC-San Bernardino County line, NW, to the LA County line.
4) Follow the LA-San Bernardino County line, N, to the Kern County Line.
5) Follow the LA-Kern County Line, to the Ventura County Line.
6) Trace a semi diagonal Line from the point where LA, Kern and Ventura Counties meet, to Brannan Island, in the Delta.
7)Trace a meridional line due north, to the Oregon border.

Everything west of the above described border will be the People's Republic of California, and everything east of it will be El Dorado.

Those familiar with the books "Ecotopia" and "The Nine Nations of North America" will recognize this as a variation on themes presented in those books. I've updated things a bit, because, since the 1980s, coastal So Cal has become more like the "Ecotopia" concept circa 1980s than the "Mexamerica" concept of that time, and this in spite of the fact that many counties in these areas have an extensive Latino population. Nonetheless, politically, the "Left Coast" counties from Camp Pendleton to the Oregon border have more in common with each other than they do with the other counties in California.

And yes, this is a dire prognosis for the long term trajectory of OC. It cannot hold. Sorry to say.