https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2011/07/11/gov-browns-office-to-conservative-californians-leave-the-state/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 12:16:58 -0400<![CDATA[So, a member of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors &#8211; Jeff Stone, a Republican &#8211; has proposed splitting the state of California, with San Diego and the largely rural, Republican-leaning south east of the state becoming &#8220;South California,&#8221; and LA remaining with the liberal coast and northern part of the state. You can follow the link to the LA Times for the map of what his proposal would look like. Secession proposals of this nature are a hardy perennial on the Left and Right alike, and are almost always bad ideas, although there is at least a fair argument that California as currently constituted is (1) too large any longer to serve the role of responding to local needs unmet from Washington that is a major part of why we have a federal system in the first place (as the LAT notes, &#8220;[t]he proposed 51st state would be the fifth largest by population, more populous than Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania&#8221;), (2) essentially dysfunctional, and (3) particularly unresponsive to the needs of the 13 million residents of the 13 counties in question.]]>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:30:20 -0400<![CDATA[Dan McLaughlin]]>https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2011/07/11/gov-browns-office-to-conservative-californians-leave-the-state-n39622