3 Californias: Who Gets Yosemite?

Above, an early morning view of Yosemite Valley. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The ballot proposition asking voters whether to split California into three states will be on the November ballot.

But one wonders, "What state gets what?" Who gets Big Sur? Who gets Yosemite? Who gets Disneyland?

The Mercury News has an article that answers those questions.

They begin with:

I’ll trade you a piece of Yosemite Valley and all of the Napa wine country for Disneyland and the Santa Monica Pier. 

For the first time since before the Civil War, California voters will decide this November whether to spilt the Golden State into three entities, dubbed California, Northern California and Southern California. An initiative to divide the state, pushed by Silicon Valley venture capital investor Tim Draper, received enough signatures to qualify it for the November ballot. Supporters say splitting the state would lead to improvements in infrastructure and education while lowering taxes. 

But the idea’s passage is a long shot at best: voters polled overwhelmingly disapprove of the idea; and even if the measure does pass in November, the proposal must still be approved by Congress.

To read more, go here. 

Plan To Split California Into Three States Qualifies For November Ballot

Is voter anger at the current one-party state of California enough to win a majority in November for an initiative that would eventually divide California into three entities if passed?

The Los Angeles Times reported:

California’s 168-year run as a single entity, hugging the continent’s edge for hundreds of miles and sprawling east across mountains and desert, could come to an end next year — as a controversial plan to split the Golden State into three new jurisdictions qualified Tuesday for the Nov. 6 ballot. 

If a majority of voters who cast ballots agree, a long and contentious process would begin for three separate states to take the place of California, with one primarily centered around Los Angeles and the other two divvying up the counties to the north and south. Completion of the radical plan — far from certain, given its many hurdles at judicial, state and federal levels — would make history.

If I were still a California resident, I would vote for the plan just to piss off the Democrats in Sacramento.

To read more, go here.