What's with all the dumb sidenotes? This reads like a 14 year old that's mad at California, lol.

Did some low quality Wikipedia research for anyone unfamiliar:

Basically this was a proposal from 2016 to split up CA on the basis that it's large size made it ungovernable. Also of note some of the regions shown like Jefferson have a lower population than South CA and lean differently politically, due to this prospective Jeffersonians feel the current state imposes politically on them and that they're not represented enough in the legislature. This measure failed to get enough signatures to get on the ballet.

Cal 3, a three state solution was proposed in 2017. It received enough signatures to be on the ballet but the CA Supreme Court struck it off in 2018. Here's the reasoning from the court:

Significant questions have been raised regarding the proposition’s validity and because we conclude that the potential harm in permitting the measure to remain on the ballot outweighs the potential harm in delaying the proposition to a future election.

Also of note Jefferson proposals typically also include parts of Oregon.

They keep tabling these stupid proposals, and the majority of the electorate keeps telling them to piss off. And rightly so. This would only weaken the state as a whole, which is exactly what the goal is. It's nothing but a selfish power-grab by a small number of wealthy malcontents, with a bunch of rubes blindly following in their wake.

If people who keep promoting these nonsense proposals don't like California the way it is they should leave the state.

Just what the US needs, to recreate the Balkans in Nth America.

Bakersfield and Victorville are the meth production areas.

this is a dumb idea. I don't think the idea of splitting up california for better senate representation is a bad one, this just aint it though.

A good plan would probably separate the 3 major cities into their own states, but there would be a lot of complicating factors.

Lol, over half of "Silicon Valley" is just the Central Coast. To those that don't know, it's mostly farmland.