Kasz216 said:
SamuelRSmith said:
Kasz216 said:
SamuelRSmith said:
I think it's a fantastic idea. The main problem, really, as Kasz pointed out, is how they will do parts of the splits, such as the debt split.
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I think it's like Scottish Independence.
In otherwords, an idea that's unpopular but scores you points with the right audience.
The only difference is the secessionsts might have an economic boom rather then bust. A Southern California country probably would steal a lot of the Norths buisness. (Like the rest of the country, but you get to still live on the beach.)
Espiecally from LA.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124718265362620253.html
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By right audiences, I assume you mean "the English" 
What would the means be of a creation of a Southern California state? I'm assuming a referendum in the involved counties, followed by some kind of bill going through the Californian legislature (though, if the referendum was successful, that will bring up questions about the authority of Sacremento over the counties)... and then Congressional/Presidential approval? Or will it also require the approval of the other states?
I'm assuming the Dems will oppose this in Congress, as Cali is normally a blue state, and now some of its electoral college votes will be going to the GOP.
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I literally have no idea.
I don't think it would require the approval of the other states, but would requre the approval of congress due to it effecting congress.
Democrats might not be as upset about it as you think though... While California has voted for Democrats the last 5 times... the 5 times before that they voted Republican.
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Largely because of the shifting focus of the parties, though. I mean 80 years ago pretty much every state (except New York) voted the opposite of the way they do now, if we just draw it on party lines. The Democrats had the Solid South, the Great Plains, and the Interior West, and the Republicans had everywhere that had really been industrialized, and those trends endured for a while (even Jimmy Carter got most of his support from the South, and that was well after the Democrats had shifted from a more folksy Populism that still had room for traditional Southern views to a straight Social-Democrat style)
