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    Movements to Create 6 New States Gaining Real Traction! (VIDEO) Six California's

    Movements to Create New States Gaining Real Traction! (VIDEO)



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    Posted by Ian Huyett on 20 Feb 2014 / 4 Comments

    California movement has passed first hurdle.

    A movement to split California into six states has passed its first legal hurdle. If the proposal gathers 807,615 signatures by July 18, it may be put to a vote in the Golden State.

    The initiative holds some promise. Unlike similar movements in other states, which are largely lead by grassroots activists, Six Californias is spearheaded by Timothy Cook Draper, a media-savvy venture capitalist known for being an early investor in Skype and Hotmail.

    “It’s very difficult to govern this state,” Draper has said. “We have the farmers in the Central Valley, and the entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley, and we have the Hollywood group, and we have the military suppliers down in Southern California. They all have separate interests and separate needs. It’s very difficult for one group in Sacramento to serve all those needs.”

    Meanwhile, a movement to split New York into two regions is likewise gaining traction. The Libertarian Republic has also covered an attempt to create a Western Maryland.

    Though Maryland’s five Western counties are largely conservative, they are increasingly finding themselves yoked with draconian gun laws and crippling taxes by their state’s Eastern majority. “Lots of people out there feel like there is no recourse, there is no hope,” a spokesman for the initiative has said.

    As Democratic constituencies grow around the country, conservative regions are increasingly exploring means of legal escape. This renaissance of conservative interest in statehood and nullification is both an inevitable and welcome development. It is an essential principle of republicanism that minorities should be allowed some power to manage their own internal affairs – and not be trampled beneath sheer majoritarian rule.

    Missouri is on track to pass a bill that would nullify federal gun laws.



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    California, the most populous state in the United States and third largest in area, has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states[1] including at least 27 serious proposals.[2] In addition, there have been various calls for the restoration of the California Republic, which would entail secession from the United States.

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    UPDATE: Plan to split California into six states gains ground...

    Plan to split California into six states gains ground


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    Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - A plan to divide California into six separate US states is closer to making it on to a November ballot, with organizers gaining approval to collect signatures.

    The seemingly far-fetched initiative, sponsored by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper, claims "political representation of California's diverse population and economies has rendered the state nearly ungovernable."
    And on Tuesday, the California Secretary of State's office gave the movement a boost, saying that proponents "may begin collecting petition signatures."
    At least 807,615 voters -- representing eight percent of the total ballots cast for governor in the 2010 election -- will need to sign the petition by July 18 to make it on to the ballot.
    The proposal aims to split the state -- America's most populous with around 38 million inhabitants -- into "six smaller state governments, while preserving the historical boundaries of the various counties, cities and towns."
    In 2012, California was tied with Russia and Italy -- all with a GDP of approximately $2.0 trillion -- for eighth place in world GDP rankings, according to the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy.
    The proposal would create a state out of Silicon Valley, home to tech giants Google, Facebook and Apple. It would also create South California, which would include Hollywood and the US entertainment industry.
    West California, Central California, North California, and Jefferson in the most northern part of the state, would also go it alone.
    According to the proposal, voters overwhelming approved dividing California in two in 1859, but Congress did not act due to the Civil War.
    Draper, who has funded more than 400 companies including Skype and Baidu, is founder of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Menlo Park, California.

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    Proposal to Split California Into Six States Clears Major Hurdle — Here Are the Proposed New States

    Feb. 22, 2014 1:44pm
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    A seemingly long-shot proposal to split California into six smaller U.S. states cleared a major hurdle this week, with the golden state’s secretary of state’s office saying that proponents “may begin collecting petition signatures.”

    The initiative is sponsored by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper, according to the AFP, and contends that ”political representation of California’s diverse population and economies has rendered the state nearly ungovernable.”

    The proposal aims to divide California into ”six smaller state governments, while preserving the historical boundaries of the various counties, cities and towns,” the AFP reported.

    “…six smaller state governments, while preserving the historical boundaries…”

    States would reportedly include Silicon Valley, South California, West California, Central California, North California and Jefferson, if the proposal is ultimately approved.

    The Tuesday move by the secretary of state’s office allows the movement to begin collecting the needed 807,615 signatures necessary for the initiative to arrive on the ballot.

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    California Gets Go-Ahead For Split Into 6 States: Here Are The Proposed 6 States

    Posted by Dom The Conservative On February 23, 2014 0 Comment

    A proposal to split California into 6 U.S. states has received the go-ahead this week after the state’s secretary of state’s office announced that proponents “may being collecting petition signatures.” The unique petition will make it to a November ballot.

    Capitalist Tim Draper claims “political representation of California’s diverse population and economies has rendered the state nearly ungovernable,” according to the AFP.

    At least 807,615 voters — representing eight percent of the total ballots cast for governor in the 2010 election — will need to sign the petition by July 18 to make it on to the ballot. Having a population of around 38 million, this number is easily feasible should Californians agree with the proposal, rather than see it as a far-fetched move.

    The plan is to split the state into “six smaller state governments, while preserving the historical boundaries of the various counties, cities and towns.”

    The new states formed would include Silicon Valley, South California, West California, Central California, North California, and Jefferson.

    According to the proposal, voters overwhelming approved dividing California in two in 1859, but Congress did not act due to the Civil War.

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    Nope, it wouldn't help the GOP at all... it would create 12 new State Senators instead of the 2 representing California currently


    6 Californias? GOP Probably Wouldn’t Be Helped By Bust-Up


    August 22, 2014 by McClatchy-Tribune

    (MCT) — As long as there have been state capitals, there have been people outside those capitals lamenting that lawmakers — in Sacramento, Denver, Des Moines, Atlanta, fill-in-the-blank — are too far removed and too far detached from the people and interests they’re supposed to be representing.
    In California, those sentiments have animated a decades-long libertarian vision of breaking away a northern chunk of the state to create, in combination with a slice of southern Oregon, the locally governed, loosely regulated state of Jefferson.
    Lately, the breakaway talk has centered on an improbable bid, pushed by venture capitalist and political dabbler Tim Draper, to splinter California into six autonomous sub-states, known as Jefferson, Silicon Valley and North, Central, West and South California. Draper, who has submitted signatures in hopes of qualifying the question for the 2016 ballot, rests his case on a good-government argument.



    His assertion is that the nation-state of California, with its 38 million residents and land mass of 163,000 square miles, is simply too big to reasonably govern. “When the people and their state are no longer in sync, and large populations feel that they are not being represented and when the state fails to provide the services that it promises to our citizens, then we lose our democracy,” Draper said in presenting the signatures his effort has garnered. (Details, such as how to handle those things that inextricably bind California, like the water and electrical supplies, have yet to be explained.)
    There is, as well, a strong undercurrent of partisanship among some advocates of cleaving California; they believe that allowing the state’s more conservative portions to go their own way would revive the deeply troubled Republican Party and empower those red-leaning voters who now bob, unhappily, in a political sea of deep blue.
    A new study, however, suggests that sundering California would be no GOP panacea, either at home or nationally. In fact, looking at voter registration and past voting patterns, the research suggests that under the multi-California scenario Democrats would continue to hold the bulk of state offices and Republicans would reap a negligible gain in the Electoral College.
    First, a brief reality check: The chances of having five additional Californias joining the 50 existing states is about as likely as the late Don Drysdale returning to the mound and pitching the Los Angeles Dodgers into the World Series.
    Consider: Even if California voters passed the Draper initiative, the final decision on busting up the state would rest with Congress. And why would a body that famously snubbed California by placing an earthquake research center in Buffalo, N.Y., vote to dilute the power of 49 other states by giving a bunch of Left Coast crazies another 10 U.S. senators to promulgate their odd notions of life and liberty?
    Casting all that aside, University of California, Berkeley, researchers Jack Citrin and Ethan Rarick crunched some numbers and came up with the following:
    Of the six proposed states, three would remain staunchly Democratic, two would tilt Republican and one, South California — essentially Orange County, San Diego and the Inland Empire — would be highly competitive. Along with the majority of statewide offices, Democrats would hold seven of 12 U.S. Senate seats, based on the most recent election returns.
    In presidential races, Republicans would improve their chances of picking up a state or two — presumably rural Jefferson and Central California — but that would not be enough to change the outcome short of an election like 2000, which ended, in effect, in a tie between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.
    President Barack Obama received 61.7 percent of the national Electoral College vote in 2012 and 67.8 percent in 2008. Under six Californias, he would have received 60.2 percent and 66.8 percent, respectively. In other words, Obama would have been comfortably elected twice even if California was splintered into six pieces.
    Going forward, the study suggests, Republicans potentially could enhance their standing in the three “states” with at least a marginal registration advantage — Jefferson, Central and South California — thus creating a “bench” of potential candidates for governor and U.S. Senate.
    “Given the evidence that voters are geographically sorting themselves into distinct partisan areas, it’s possible that more conservative voters might flee the coastal Californias for a more conservative inland state,” Citrin and Rarick wrote.
    But it is also possible, the study says, “given the ever-increasing diversity of the electorate and the GOP’s difficulty in wooing Latino voters” that “chopping up the state could produce not merely six Californias but six Democratic Californias.”
    In short, dividing California would not likely conquer the state’s ruling Democrats.
    Even if Don Drysdale did come back and pitch the Dodgers into the World Series.
    –Mark Z. Barabak
    Los Angeles Times

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