Proposed California Split

[DesertBerean]

Water is also a main issue here in California. Mainly, SoCal uses water from No Cal as well as the Colorado River. No Cal gripes about this especially during droughts such as the one we're having now.

[Outis]

Water is also a main issue here in California. Mainly, SoCal uses water from No Cal as well as the Colorado River. No Cal gripes about this especially during droughts such as the one we're having now.

Ah, they just need to wait until the Big One hits and everything east of the San Andreas slides off into the Atlantic.

[DesertBerean]

Ah, they just need to wait until the Big One hits and everything east of the San Andreas slides off into the Atlantic.

Wow never heard that one before. ..... yeah.

[Cow Poke]

And northern New York is very different than New York City. The panhandle of Florida is very different than southern Florida. The upper peninsula of Michigan is very different from the Detroit area. Northern Virginia is very different from southern Virginia. Eastern Pennsylvania is very different from western Pennsylvania. And as CP has often noted, Austin Texas is very different from the rest of Texas. Perhaps we should go from 50 states (or as some think, 57) to a hundred or more.

Didn't Obama visit 57 states already, with 1 left to go?

Ah, I see what you did there.

[Cow Poke]

the Civil War/War of Northern Aggression.

The latter.

[lilpixieofterror]

California is being considered for a split into 6 smaller states. The reasoning, reportedly, is "with 38 million people, California is too big and diverse to properly represent all of its residents".

Source

Thoughts?

There has been talks about splitting Cali since before I was born and it hasn't moved beyond mere talks and I doubt it will ever happen.

[lilpixieofterror]

Seems unlikely to happen, but it does make some sense. My understanding is that northern CA is very different than southern CA.

It is, the two tend to argue with one another all the time, but I really doubt it would ever happen. The only case of a state splitting was in the case of West Virgina splitting from Virgina and that was due to the civil war. Short of that, I doubt Cali will ever break up into smaller states.

[Outis]

It is, the two tend to argue with one another all the time, but I really doubt it would ever happen. The only case of a state splitting was in the case of West Virgina splitting from Virgina and that was due to the civil war. Short of that, I doubt Cali will ever break up into smaller states.

Maine from Massachusetts.

[lilpixieofterror]

Maine from Massachusetts.

And how many years ago was that?

[Cow Poke]

It is, the two tend to argue with one another all the time, but I really doubt it would ever happen. The only case of a state splitting was in the case of West Virgina splitting from Virgina and that was due to the civil war. Short of that, I doubt Cali will ever break up into smaller states.

Unless you believe...
"Maine, which is not connected to Massachusetts by land, was separated from it as a new state in 1820, as one of the provisions of the Missouri Compromise."

[lilpixieofterror]

Unless you believe...
"Maine, which is not connected to Massachusetts by land, was separated from it as a new state in 1820, as one of the provisions of the Missouri Compromise."

And again, that was almost 2 centuries ago and we were dealing with kind of a backwater place at that. Cali has millions of people and is highly developed. I doubt it would ever happen. There is just too much vested in keeping the state together.

[rogue06]

The latter.

The War of Southern Succession

Civil Wars are where different sides are fighting for control of the government which was not the case here.

[Cow Poke]

Yeah

[Outis]

The War of Southern Succession

The word is spelled "Secession."

[Outis]

And how many years ago was that?

You cited "only case." I assumed Maine from Massachusetts was an oversight.