Republican wants 51st state from southern CA that excludes LA, Santa Barbara, Ventura

[Liberal_in_LA]

'South California' for 51st state?

Fed up with Sacramento, a Riverside County politician seeks to break 13 counties away to form a state called South California

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Supervisor Jeff Stone, a Republican pharmacist from Temecula, called California an "ungovernable'' financial catastrophe from which businesses are fleeing and where taxpayers are being crushed by the burden of caring for welfare recipients and illegal immigrants.

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Along with Riverside, the counties in Stone's South California would be Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Mono, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego and Tulare.

Combined, those counties are home to about 13 million people. Republicans account for the majority of registered voters in all of those counties except San Bernardino and Imperial.

Noticeably absent from Stone's vision of an independent South California is Los Angeles County, the state's largest by population and a Democratic stronghold. Ventura and Santa Barbara counties also failed to make the cut.

"Los Angeles is purposely excluded because they have the same liberal policies that Sacramento does. The last thing I want to do is create a state that's a carbon copy of what we have now,'' Stone said. "Los Angeles just enacted a ban on plastic grocery bags. That put three or four manufacturers out of business.''

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-south-california-20110711,0,2846870.story

[Duer 157099]

1. Sounds more like East California

But I bet they won't want that name because it sounds too much like East LA and I bet they don't like East LA.

[polichick]

2. I know the feeling - I'd love to live in a country without conservatives.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Sorry . . . no room on the flag.

[polichick]

4. Sure would take a redesign!

[Ship of Fools]

5. heh, heh, heh

so that means:

LA: Don't want no Hispanics in my new state!
Ventura: Don't want no hippies in my new state!
Santa Barbara: Don't want no progressive librul types in my new state!

Eat shit and die, Stone.

[provis99]

6. Idiot. Conservative tax policies ruined California.

How fucking stupid does this guy have to be?

[polichick]

8. Conservatives are unable to connect the dots - actually there was a study about this...

...how they fail reasoning sections on tests because they literally cannot put several steps together in thinking things through.

[dissidentboomer]

7. Ah, yes, and Paris Hilton and her little rat dog

could be governor!

[TDale313]

9. As a Bay Area gal...

Born and raised, I say fine, let 'em go. Especially if we get to keep LA. But fair warning: We're keeping the water. Enjoy your desert.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. They'd get the agricultural land

[LynneSin]

11. Good then give DC full voting rights

The two new states would equal things out when it comes to senators.

[KamaAina]

12. Rotsa ruck.

There is exactly ONE road, I-15 (or "the 15" :-) ), that connects the noerthern and southern halves of this "state".

Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties are part of the L.A. media market as well as having many commuters. Would "South California" continue to support Metrolink rail?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Translation . He wants a republican paradise.

[TheMightyFavog]

14. Herd this shit up here, too.

Take Northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, merge them and cut them off from Southern Wisconsin (Madison and Milwaukee) and Lower Michigan.

[shraby]

15. It will never happen. Upper Michigan has been trying for

years and years to separate from Lower Michigan, mostly because the tax monies sent to Lansing never comes back any higher than to Midland, Michigan. The upper part of lower and the peninsula are the poor sections of the state.
Upper Michigan has an even stronger case to separate than in California.

[Angleae]

16. Even if they did seperate from CA, they wouldn't automatically be the 51st state.

They'd be a territory similar to Guam or Puerto Rico until congress admits them into the union as a state.