Breaking Up California Into Three States?

[ElFenix]

Not at all and was necessary to form the US. Otherwise states with smaller populations wouldn't have joined.

If the Senate was based on population it would be just like the House of Reps and therefore be redundant and unnecessary.

There's a reason we don't have pure democracy: Mob Rule.

Fern

senate could be based on population and still not be like the house by keeping the longer staggered terms.

 

[Stokely]

Not sure about that, but I'd be ok for all the bass-ackward red states to just form Jesusland and be done with it. Stolen shamelessly from that old meme imagine with United States of Canada as the "blue country". Of course, I'd have to move because Florida is in Jesusland. Heck I want to anyway, that would just force my hand 🙂

 

[Fern]

senate could be based on population and still not be like the house by keeping the longer staggered terms.

I consider the "terms" to be a meaningless distinction.

To make the Senate proportional only makes things like the Wiskey Tax of the late 1700's more likely. In this case, one half of the US made the other half pay the bills for the American Revolution. One half's alcohol products were exempt while the other half's were not.

Fern

 

[ElFenix]

corn subsidies.

 

[Moonbeam]

I think California should offer to buy other states. This would accelerate the trend that others states become like California is twenty years. California is a brain magnet and drives world culture. Knuckle draggers everywhere will hate us as they are assimilated. California is the Borg state.

 

[theeedude]

Small states will not agree to dilute their power voluntarily. All of these ideas can only politically happen if it's clear the alternative is a civil war. And I dont see Californians signing up to fight a war to split the state into three parts.

 

[theeedude]

I think California should offer to buy other states. This would accelerate the trend that others states become like California is twenty years. California is a brain magnet and drives world culture. Knuckle draggers everywhere will hate us as they are assimilated. California is the Borg state.

Californians moving due to high housing prices is going to gentrify a lot of areas. Lots of techies moving to places like Oregon and Colorado, but keeping their liberal politics.

 

[Thebobo]

Feds would never let it happen.

 

[Moonbeam]

Californians moving due to high housing prices is going to gentrify a lot of areas. Lots of techies moving to places like Oregon and Colorado, but keeping their liberal politics.

I've been fantasizing about Wales, including the fantasy about speaking Cymraeg.

 

[wirelessenabled]

I actually like the six region version a bit better. It separates the Silicon Valley and San Francisco into a small and wealthy Liberal powerhouse state like Connecticut, and takes the Conservative Northern California areas makes them separate states. These regions could finally manage themselves properly, instead of letting Sacramento continue to pass "Once size, fits nobody" legislation.

Yeah make far Northern California in to the Western Alabama. That is where those ignorant fucks are headed.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I thought Phoenix was White Mountain?

Not even close. White mountain would include the reservation.