New California

[OctolingRift]

I live in California and I am all for this. I want to be able to live here in the state I was born in, but taxes are far too high. This place is also a liberal hellhole.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

I live in California and I am all for this. I want to be able to live here in the state I was born in, but taxes are far too high. This place is also a liberal hellhole.

You wouldn't be living in the same state, just the same geographic position

 

[Spectral Blizzard]

With the state California is in, it's gonna become its own fucking badass country with the motto, "C stands for weed and shit."
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Don't even get me started on the national anthem.

 

[OctolingRift]

You wouldn't be living in the same state, just the same geographic position

That's what I meant.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

That's what I meant.

Regardless, though, I can't see this going through. There's no way a majority of Congress is going to be ok with splitting up one of the largest states we have and letting the complaining party take the bigger half

 

[OctolingRift]

Regardless, though, I can't see this going through. There's no way a majority of Congress is going to be ok with splitting up one of the largest states we have and letting the complaining party take the bigger half

*smaller

 

[TotalInsanity4]

*smaller

Bigger geographically and I'm pretty sure bigger by population, as well

 

[OctolingRift]

Bigger geographically and I'm pretty sure bigger by population, as well

Liberals complain far more than republicans if that is what you're implying

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Liberals complain far more than republicans if that is what you're implying

I wasn't referring to a political party, I was referring to the party in this particular problem that take issue with their state's elected officials, who then effectively filed a complaint

 

[OctolingRift]

I wasn't referring to a political party, I was referring to the party in this particular problem that take issue with their state's elected officials, who then effectively filed a complaint

Ah, my bad m8

 

[kuwanger]

Being very pessimistic, the lines seem drawn along population and water rights considerations. That is, "New California" wants all the water and to use it as leverage to get money on the major population centers. Resources are the major reason for political boundary redraws, after all.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Also I find it funny how the author specifically states that one of the main reasons for proposing the split was that their state had become a one-party political system

Like mate

Your last governor was Republican

 

[kuwanger]

their state had become a one-party political system

The insanity party! Too bad red and blue are both members.

 

[tatripp]

I'm from California. This happens every few years. There is a 0% chance of this happening.

 

[chrisrlink]

With the state California is in, it's gonna become its own fucking badass country with the motto, "C stands for weed and shit."
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Don't even get me started on the national anthem.

great idea every weed legal state hurry it up and succeed from the union make your own damn country where weed is 100% legal

 

[invaderyoyo]

The California government is a joke. Everything gets taxed, everything is deemed as causing cancer, taxes on gas, taxes on those taxes. Yeah, what a great place to live.

Yeah, there are taxes, but it really is a great place to live. The weather is nice, there are lots of different types of people, and there's a lot of cool stuff to do. I don't see how finding things that cause cancer is a bad thing.
Anyway, I love it here.

 

[xpoverzion]

What do you think their chances are? I don't think the other regions would be too happy about that, but they problably would think that they are better without.

Simply put, it's the conservative area's trying to break away from the liberal areas. Just one of the several civil wars that America is heading towards.

 

[the_randomizer]

Yeah, there are taxes, but it really is a great place to live. The weather is nice, there are lots of different types of people, and there's a lot of cool stuff to do. I don't see how finding things that cause cancer is a bad thing.
Anyway, I love it here.

The cost of living is exorbitant.

 

[Futurdreamz]

I'm from California. This happens every few years. There is a 0% chance of this happening.

You never had Trump before. And that forest fire and subsequent flooding was exceptionally nasty so some people may have taken note.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

The cost of living is exorbitant.

That's really not the fault of the government, that's more the fault of all the Silicon Valley multimillionares that settle there for the scenery and drive property values through the roof with their mansions