Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November ballot

[–] pembo210 2 points (+2|-0)

Where California now has two seats in the 100-person U.S. Senate, the three states would have six seats in a 104-member chamber. That would dilute the power of other states and increase the power of what used to be a single state if its six senators banded together on various issues.

this worries me a bit

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

It would worry me more if they were just handing the current political establishment the extra seats. The intent - as far as I can tell by reading - is to divide the state into regions with political similarities. It looks like we'd wind up with one red state, one blue state, and one that could go either way.

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

I wish they divided it with sanfran and LA in the same state, it would be less of a concern.

[–] pembo210 2 points (+2|-0)

If a couple more states did it, it could seriously shift power around in the senate.

[–] chmod 1 points (+1|-0)

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Yeah, each state would have at least one very large, liberal city to offset the right-leaning rural areas; Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco.

Not good.

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

Draper’s plan calls for three new entities — Northern California, California and Southern California — which would roughly divide the population of the existing state into thirds.

Dividing the state by region and population makes sense to me. This plan is the best version I've seen yet, even though it's not perfect.

Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November ballot

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