Timothy Birdnow

The more conservative interior of California wants to secede and create New California. Can't say I blame them.

Here's has the dope:

"With the reading of their own version of a Declaration of Independence, founders of the state of New California took the first steps to what they hope will eventually lead to statehood.

To be clear, they don't want to leave the United States, just California.

"Well, it's been ungovernable for a long time. High taxes, education, you name it, and we're rated around 48th or 50th from a business climate and standpoint in California," said founder Robert Paul Preston.

The state of New California would incorporate most of the state's rural counties, leaving the urban coastal counties to the current state of California.:

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Part of Colorado tried this and failed. The problem is, not only does the area in question have to approve it at the ballot box but the state legislature has to approve it likewise. Vermont was part of New York until the state legislature gave permission to secede. Ditto Kentucky, which was part of Virginia. Maine seceded from Massachussetts. But in all of these instances the state legislature gave permission. In Colorado the state legislature would no doubt have denied permission had the people voted to create a new state. And California is NOT going to allow the Imperial Valley to opt out, as it is the primary agreicultural part of the state and is needed to carry the millions of illegals and ne'er do wells that California has taken upon itself to support.

So don't look for New California any time soon.

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