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What's the point? I think California is united as a signature identity at this point. I'd kind of rather live and die with what we have now.
by eruditely 12y ago
What's the point? I think California is united as a signature identity at this point.
I'd kind of rather live and die with what we have now.
- dllthomas 12y agoWhen CA entered the union, it held well less than one percent of the US population. Since then, the US population has gone up about fourteenfold. CA population has gone up four-hundred-and-fourteenfold. When our borders were drawn, we had industry and population like Wyoming, and it's not crazy that we had borders to match. Now, we have industry and population more like the eastern seaboard, and we should quite arguably have borders more like the eastern seaboard. As it stands, our voices are systematically underrepresented at the national level and our state government is too big to be responsive. I have some mixed feelings about this particular proposal, but I am more than sympathetic to the notion that we should carve up this state. And the notion that residents of Humboldt and residents of San Diego have more of a shared identity than residents of New Haven and New Bedford seems... a stretch. As an aside, Texas and Florida would also be good candidates to split, if they wanted to.