By Ben Marquis
In the wake of the election of President Donald Trump, there emerged a flurry of talk among liberal Californians of a “Calexit,” or exit of California from the United States in order to form their own new nation.
While secession from the union by California has always been viewed as unlikely and unreasonable, an equally unlikely but slightly more reasonable proposal has been put forth — not for the state to secede from the rest of America, but to be broken up into three smaller states that would remain united with the rest of the states.
According to The New York Times, paperwork for the Three Californias proposal has been officially filed with the state, and if the rest of the proposition process is completed within a timely manner, the proposal could end up on 2018 ballots for Californians to vote on.
The proposal was put forward by a Silicon Valley tech billionaire named Timothy Draper, who stated, “No one can argue that California’s government is doing a good job governing or educating or building infrastructure for its people. And it doesn’t matter which party is in place.”
Draper wants to split the current state containing nearly 40 million people into three roughly equivalent parts in terms of population and wealth.
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That would include Northern California, which would cover the upper half of the state from the San Francisco Bay area to the Oregon border, as well as Southern California, which would cover the interior counties of the central valley down to the border with Mexico.
A third state known simply as California or New California would essentially be a strip of counties along the coast from Los Angeles up to about Monterey.
full story at https://conservativetribune.com/proposal-split-cali-3-states-filed/