Proposal to divide California into 6 states moves step closer to voter consideration

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
02/20/2014


LOS ANGELES — California has reached the breaking point. Or so says Tim Draper, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who is pushing a proposal to crack the nation's most populous state into pieces.

Six of them, in this case.

California has grown so big, so divided, it's essentially ungovernable, according to a ballot initiative that could reach voters in November.

It has to go.

"Vast parts of our state are poorly served by a representative government," according to Draper's plan, which cleared a key government hurdle this week to qualify for the ballot. California residents "would be better served by six smaller state governments."

No one would dispute that California, home to 38 million people, is full of rivalries and squabbling. Dodgers or Giants. Tacos or sushi. Where water goes, and how much of it.

But the state has proven reliably resilient against attempts to split it apart, dating to the era of its founding in 1850. Over the years, proposals have suggested California should be two states, or three, or four.


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Does anyone think that Congress would approve of the partitioning of the State of California?
"Congress would have to endorse the idea of creating six new states — and adding 10 senators to the chamber's political mix (as with all states, California currently has two). Congress, under the U.S. Constitution, must approve the creation or division of any states."
Oh I know, we'd have to ask Joe Biden, he'd have a solution. Hmm..., I wonder what the proposed states would be named?