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New California
- SamReidHughes 9y agoA good idea. I'd do anything to get free of the state constitution (besides move). A more fitting name would be "Old California."
- gumby 9y agoSelfish people who think their taxes will go down if they don’t have to, in their minds, subsidize rural counties. What happened to “United we stand?”
- SamReidHughes 9y agoI was under the impression from the article that it was people from rural counties that wanted to split. Because they've got Orange County on this map, and they're most unhappy with existing state politics.
- dragonwriter 9y agoDupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159671 As I stated over in the other thread, the news articles claim that this is about separating the rural and/or inland counties from the urban and/or coastal ones is unsupported by the groups website, which does not specify that goal (or any specific geographic or county-type criteria) and explicitly targets getting committees going in as many of California's counties as possible.