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.
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.
According to KNTV, Draper now has 180 days to collect at least 365,880 petition signatures
from registered voters to be submitted for approval by California's Secretary of State
Alex Padilla before it can become eligible for the 2018 ballot.
Should Draper get his proposal on the ballot and California's voters approve of the measure,
it would then need to be approved by the state's legislature, then sent for approval by the
U.S. Congress, who have the final say when it comes to statehood.
To be sure, the proposal has generated quite a bit of debate in that some people think
Californians would be better served living in smaller, more manageable states, while
others suggest that splitting the state into three would only cause chaos and result in
further disparities between the more wealthy urban coast and rural interior.
Interestingly, this actually isn't Draper's first venture into the realm of creating new
states out of pre-existing ones, as he previously backed a similar proposal to break up California
into six smaller states.
The Six Californias proposal was initially launched in 2013, but despite the investment
of roughly $5 million, it failed to garner enough petition signatures to gain a spot
on the 2016 ballot.
That proposal would have created the states of Jefferson (along the border with Oregon),
North California, Silicon Valley (the Bay area headed south along the coast), Central
California, West California (including Los Angeles) and South California.
In pushing that proposal, Draper made many of the same arguments he is making with his
current Three Californias proposal, namely that the state as it currently exists is too
large and ungovernable, and that citizens are best served by a smaller and more localized
government that is more in tune with their wants and needs.
In that sentiment, we tend to agree with Draper on the size of government and its relation
to the citizens, but we don't really see this proposal going anywhere.
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