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Could California be split up into 6 states?
Billionaire Wants To Break Up California Into 6 States.
http://sourcefed.com/billionaire-wan...into-6-states/ Silicon Valley enthusiast, and venture capitalist Tom Draper is known for backing incredible companies such as Hotmail, Tesla Motors, and Skype. Now he’s backing a new proposal: Breaking up California into 6 separate states. Draper feels a large state such as California would be better served by smaller governments. Roger Salazar, a spokesmen for the campaign stated: “It’s important because it will help us create a more responsive, more innovative and more local government, and that ultimately will end up being better for all of Californians. The idea … is to create six states with responsive local governments – states that are more representative and accountable to their constituents.” The campaign has gathered over 800,000 signatures needed to place the measure onto the November 2016 ballot, but opponents say that it has little chance making it past both the voters and Congress. Steven Maviglio, a Democratic political strategist who has formed the group OneCalifornia with GOP strategist Joe Rodota to fight Draper’s plan stated: “This is a colossal and divisive waste of time, energy, and money that will hurt the California brand. It has zero chance of passage. But what it does is scare investment away… at a time when the Governor is leading us to an economic comeback.” Draper’s plan splits the world’s eighth-largest economy along geographic lines creating the states. Silicon Valley would include the valley along with the San Francisco Bay Area, Jefferson would encompass the northernmost region, North California would encompass the state capital of Sacramento, while South California would be made up of San Diego and the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles. Los Angeles would be part of a state called West California. Central California would take Fresno, Bakersfield, and Stockton and would also be the largest of the six. ![]() |
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Join the Navy. I heard those sailor guys like to blow each other out in the pacific.
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But yeah, the cost of houses everywhere else in this country makes me jealous for sure. But then again...a mainly flat farm state isn't for everyone. If i were to leave California, i'd probably go to AZ. It's equally as cheap but they have a coast.
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Needs more middle fingers
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![]() You don't like their culture or politics fine and dandy. But we would immediately cease to be a super power and maybe become a 2nd class nation if Cali and their economy just disappeared.
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Needs better names. We already have states whose names start with "North", "South", "West".
Maybe they should have a contest to come up with something better. |
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I have never been to California. On my list. The farthest West I have been is Utah.
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Really? Wow. I've been to California 20 times this year already. I'm there/here now, in fact.
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They had also better give some thought to water. That new southern state has no access to drinkable water. Try having a state without water.
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If they are going to be splitting states up, I would like them to reinvestigate creating the state of Lincoln out of the panhandle of Idaho and eastern WA (and maybe western MT).
Screw western WA. |
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Ok but all those things are in southern California. Except for the bay area but we have west Hollywood.
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Probably a Q, but California should be blown up, not split up
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Oh is this the thread where we post ignorant assumptions about California and request it to secede from the union because it's expensive or something? Oh good. It is.
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