California, as it is today, is the only major player in efforts to curtail the excesses of the conservative juggernaut. This market is so large that California

California, as it is today, is the only major player in efforts to curtail the excesses of the conservative juggernaut. This market is so large that California's liberal legislature can coerce many nation-wide businesses and institutions to conform to it's liberal agenda with the threat of exclusion from its market. Efforts to divide the state would splinter that market reducing this power and also might produce 4 more conservative senators.