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The biggest political consequence of this plan is that it would add 4 additional democratic senate seats. For this reason, I can't see this plan proceeding tho
by tristanj 9y ago
The biggest political consequence of this plan is that it would add 4 additional democratic senate seats.
For this reason, I can't see this plan proceeding though congress.
- hkmurakami 9y agoWon't the green area go GOP?
- thomas_howland 9y agoTemporarily at best. They have been active targets for Dem takeover for decades and absent massive population shifts the demographics will fairly shortly ensure that occurs.
- tristanj 9y agoI think it's close, but San Diego should be enough to tip it blue. Here's how the counties voted in 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_California,_2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_... Edit: I was curious so I ran the math. It's super close, but republicans barely win. In 2012, Republicans scored 1,786,934 votes in green counties. Democrats scored 1,774,135 votes. That places republicans winning by 12,799 votes or with 50.18% of the vote. That makes the new "Southern California" a swing state.
- an_account 9y agoActually I think it would add 2 democratic and 2 republican seats. The proposed “Southern California” has large amount of conservative voters and I think the GOP would be able to scrape out wins there. Both OC and SD are relatively conservative for populated areas in CA. But I agree with you that this plan has no chance.