For the political side, here is a per-county view: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/in-california-growing-diversity-first-made-its-mark/?_r=0

For the political side, here is a per-county view: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/in-california-growing-diversity-first-made-its-mark/?_r=0 http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/in-calif... On the practical side, a division into 6 parts avoids the usual North/South argument, or the less frequent North/Central/South version, and could be walked back to a 5, 4, or 3-way split. That said, I recall a survey not long after Prop 13 that had Californians liking a 2-way split, as long as the part that each respondent lived in 'got' Disneyland, and the other part got Sacramento. This proposal seems about as likely to happen as that one.