Should Northern California Secede and Become the State of Jefferson?

[mota bhai 2,675]

Activists in Northern California, near the border with Oregon, are pushing to secede from the Golden State. They say they’re fed up with taxes, regulation, and lack of representation. If they get their way, the country’s 51st entrant would be called the State of Jefferson.

“The three major urban areas dictate politics for the entire state,” says Mark Baird of the Jefferson Declaration Committee. “Our children are leaving, our economy is crashing, we are taxed, every breath we take is regulated, and we feel that a free state will cure that.”

To date, five county governments have signed on the plan and more may be joining up.

“We can’t afford to run a California style beauracracy, that is true,” says Baird. “But as a small rural state, we don’t want to. ”

http://www.publicceo.com/2014/06/should-northern-california-secede-and-become-the-state-of-jefferson/

[eieio 1,594]

Well it is a big state.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Activists in Northern California, near the border with Oregon, are pushing to secede from the Golden State. They say they’re fed up with taxes, regulation, and lack of representation. If they get their way, the country’s 51st entrant would be called the State of Jefferson.

“The three major urban areas dictate politics for the entire state,” says Mark Baird of the Jefferson Declaration Committee. “Our children are leaving, our economy is crashing, we are taxed, every breath we take is regulated, and we feel that a free state will cure that.”

To date, five county governments have signed on the plan and more may be joining up.

“We can’t afford to run a California style beauracracy, that is true,” says Baird. “But as a small rural state, we don’t want to. ”

http://www.publicceo.com/2014/06/should-northern-california-secede-and-become-the-state-of-jefferson/

Yes it's too big.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

How about giving it back to the Mexicans?

[mota bhai 2,675]

How about giving it back to the Mexicans?

Charity? No.

How about they buy it back, or win it back in war fair and square?

Yes it's too big.

So is Texas. I've read that historically Congress likes to create new states or add new states only if it does not disturb the short-term partisan balance. So maybe a Republican state of northern Cali and a Democratic state of the border regions of Texas?