“Cal 3,” a proposal to split California into three states will appear on the November 2018 ballot after gathering far more than the minimum number of signatures required, organizers announced Tuesday.
The UK Guardian wondered this week if the “New California” movement is the Golden State’s equivalent of the next Brexit.
A group of activists declared “independence” for the state of “New California” on Monday, in an attempt to leave California’s liberal coastal enclaves and create a 51st U.S. state out of the remainder of the Golden State.
The New York Times has published an extensive look at California’s “far north,” the group of conservative counties in the high Sierra country whose residents often feel alienated from state government, and where a movement to form a new “State of Jefferson” remains strong.
The “CalExit” leftists who want California to secede from the Union now that President-elect Donald J. Trump is preparing to take office have a tough history to face: no effort to divide California, or to secede from the United States, has ever succeeded.
Twenty-five California counties chose Donald J. Trump for President of the United States, while 33 went for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. And seventeen of the 21 California counties proposed for the “State of Jefferson” went for Trump, most by more than 10 percent.
The New York Daily News has published an extended essay on the State of Jefferson, the ongoing effort by a set of rural Northern California counties to secede and form their own political unit under the U.S. Constitution.
The Lake County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday to remove prior support for a 2016 “State of Jefferson” ballot measure.