The biggest county in the lower 48 wants to secede from California.
I think there would be adequate resources to support it. I imagine a lot of Californians would move there if it happened.
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The biggest county in the lower 48 wants to secede from California.
I think there would be adequate resources to support it. I imagine a lot of Californians would move there if it happened.
Comments are closed.
The Progressive Democrats ought to be all for this. By splitting California up into say six states with 5 out of the 6 being radically progressive, they could control the US Senate for unknown decades into the future. We’d also need a 55 star flag.
Too bad San Bernardino doesn’t include the San Fernando Valley. (I had to check). Now THAT’s a name for a State. Love to hear that called out in a convention…
But this article is just about San Bernardino county making only one new state.
The problem is that San Bernardino is bipolar – the people of the deserts (both mojave and sonoran) are one block of voters, the people of the smog (along the I-10 corridor from about Pomona to Colton, maybe Redlands) are sufficiently infested with wreckers and looters to make it impossible to govern.
Um, I believe the Soviets under Stalin accused people they thought were undermining the socialist revolution as being “wreckers.”
Ayn Rand, perhaps turning around the language used by the Soviet Communists, referred to characters in her novel Atlas Shrugged as “moochers and looters.”
So the “people of the deserts” would refer to the “people of the smog” as “looters”, whereas the smog people would call desert people who voted against Progressive candidates and plans as “wreckers”?
“But his belief that the solution is secession — that it would be easier to carve out another state than fix these inequities through the existing political process, because those in charge will never relinquish any power — reflects just how disillusioned so many Californians have become about the extent of the problems here and our ability to ever fix them. ”
It is also true.
I wish my own state could split in half so that I don’t have to move from paradise.
The founders likely did not forsee this problem at all, but the Constitution should be amended so that no state has more than 7 million people; that only US Citizens are counted for apportionment, and that the ratio of Citizens to representative is 35,000:1
Los Angeles County (by itself) has more people than all but 7 states (including California without LA County). Cook County has more voters than 28 states and 11 provinces, and about 40% of all of Illinois voters. NYC is just a disaster on many fronts.
“I wish my own state could split in half so that I don’t have to move from paradise.”
What paradisiacal State are you blessed with living in wodun? I live in Ohio; wouldn’t describe it quite that way. The term “armpit of the nation” comes to mind. Perhaps that is to harsh…
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“Domestic Terrorists” – Maxine Waters
I lived in San Bernardino city for 5 years starting in 1980, and Redlands for 23 years after that. The first decade was okay, because the area was awash in federal money. Norton Air Force Base was a beehive of activity, housing not only the 63rd Military Airlift Wing, but a number of Air Force Special Program Offices. Mine was the Air Force Ballistic Missile Office, where the Peacekeeper ICBM program was run. The Air Force had 1,200 officers in BMO, matched by about the same number of TRW Ballistic Missile Division engineers. I was one of them. We were the “Cadillac of SETA contractors,” and flooded the San Bernardino/Redlands area with money. (Not many people knew that the SR-71 SPO was at Norton, in another part of the warehouse BMO occupied. Not even the BMO commanding general knew it.)
Norton was BRACed in 1993, and the decline of the area since then was immediate and accelerating. I fled a year too late, in 2008, but at least got out in time to rescue my future. Redlands, where we lived on Snob Hill, is almost a ghost town. San Berdoo itself was a ghost town years before we left.
But even in the initial flush years, my characterization of The Inland Empire was: if armpits had assholes, the latter would be superior to this place.
Carving the worst place in all of California out to be its own state doesn’t seem like an undertaking likely to draw massive support from anyone. I can’t fault the guy for trying. Hell, I’ve tried bigger and stupider things. But there just doesn’t seem to be any future in this endeavor.