Southern CA gets almost all its water from a combination of Northern CA and the Colorado River.
Southern CA gets almost all its water from a combination of Northern CA and the Colorado River.
If CA were to be sold off to the highest bidder, could we pay off the national debt?
ataglance wrote:
yeah, w/o the hoover dam LA doesn't exist as we know it. i think they get like 70% of their power from there.
It's actually about 7%.
But hey, what's a decimal place between us friends?
alanson wrote:
Great idea. We need 10 more Democrats in the Senate.
Not the way the borders are divided up on that map. At least two of those "states" would have heavy Republican majorities. It would probably be 6-4 or 5-5.
zbt wrote:
Better idea is for the Pacific Coast states to break off from USA--CA, OR, WA---they have great beaches, deserts and mountains, great businesses (Nike, Microsoft, Google, eBay, banks, construction firms etc), great universities (Stanford, USC, UCLA, CalTech), movie industry, music industry, great ethnic food, California girls, etc. We'll let Vancouver and Baja join in, and Hawaii and AK if they want. Rest of the country would be screwed.
AMEN!!!
DontFeedTheTroll wrote:
It has no chance of passing, so there's that.
I'm not sure how this is magically going to "solve the state's water issues", because it's not like this is going to create water out of thin air. It's going to solve it in the sense that some of the new states will have all the water and the southern California states will have none. Which isn't exactly a "solution".
It's also going to split California into some really rich states and really poor states. What's in it for the latter? Why would the people living there want this?
It doesn't need the notion of "solving all the state's problems" in order to make sense. If that were the case why not just consolidate all 50 states. "Hey, breaking them up won't solve all our problems so why break it up?"
What it would do is create a number of states that are somewhat more aligned with the size of other states, provide for better representation for the individual voter, make it possible for each state to be more responsive to its citizens, etc.
Splitting up is not a panacea by any stretch of the imagination. But to leave it as is 'forever', well because it has always been that way does not make sense to me. California has grown too big to be effectively governed as one state or to be represented in US congress as one state.
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