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The Coastal Cities of California wish to split off from the rest of California to become the 51st state. Your thoughts?

Residents of the Coastal cities say that their state is being badly financially mismanaged. California is now the poorest state in the Union. It has been likened to a crazy old Uncle who wants to buy you dinner all the time but he owes a hundred grand to every loan shark. New California, comprised of the west coast cities, would then become the 51st state.
bijouxbroussard · F Best Comment
Ridiculous. A poll this morning indicated 83% against, so I don’t see that going too far.
@sunsporter1649 No. This is strictly about California. The polls that indicated a majority vote [b]in California[/b] were correct, btw.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@bijouxbroussard Somebody got one right! I'm impressed!
@sunsporter1649 As you should be.

katielass · F
Well, you can't blame them. Who wants to live in a state that the other 49 laugh at.
4meAndyou · F
@TheProphet Yeah, I am SO much more interested in the fact that Trump has TWO scoops of ice cream on his pie, and the fact that he is drinking DIET coke and that he eats cheeseburgers and whether or not he will eventually have a stroke...than North Korea, immigration, and the budget.
TheProphet · M
@4meAndyou I know right. They just can't get over the fact that the majority of States support him. Take california, Illinois, and new york out of the eqaution and liberals will never see another dem President or Congress.
katielass · F
@TheProphet Well, as I always say, if there is a wrong side to an issue the left will find it and embrace it. They are always on the wrong side of everything.
Aren't the coast cities who keep putting Jerry Brown back in office?
TheProphet · M
@Peterbilt1955 Moonbeam. They do love that flake.
SW-User
Not sure where the poorest stat comes form -- 10th highest per capita GDP. 6th largest economy in the world if it were a country.

Jerry Brown’s Legacy: A $6.1 Billion Budget Surplus in California
@jackson55 No, it's just the only state that actually cancelled the Martin Luther King holiday, lol. Congratulations ! It's only slightly less in debt than California, based upon that list: California, Michigan, Arizona.
jackson55 · M
[@ And why do you think the cost of living is so high there? California has a spending probblem and there's no one to sit on the other side of the table on behalf of the tax payers. Arizona may not be perfect but it's not run by a bunch of liberal polititions.
@jackson55 I'd still rather be around liberals than KKK.
TheProphet · M
Here we are hoping Chicago becomes it's own State and quits draining the rest of the State's resources.
TheProphet · M
@4meAndyou the mayor is obamas flunky. incompetent and corrupt. Mafia still exists in chicago.
4meAndyou · F
@TheProphet It's up to the voters,then....if the elections aren't rigged, and they probably are.
TheProphet · M
@4meAndyou It's a solid blue state, they won't change the legislature although we have a Republican govenor now, he can't get much done.
jackson55 · M
There's been a movement to split California north from south. Much of the norths tax money and resources go to supporting the south.
They even proposed to split Cali into 5 or 6 states.
4meAndyou · F
@jjoe01 LOLOL!!! I bet they wish the name "New Mexico" wasn't already taken.
@4meAndyou That'll be the state where San Diego is located. Or call it North Mexico. LOL
4meAndyou · F
@jjoe01 LOLOL!!!
DreamingOfSummer · 26-30, F
Better idea! Let California leave the US and become the Socialist Republic of California and they can bankrupt themselves in a couple years. Then they can all escape and become "undocumented residents" of Mexico.
4meAndyou · F
@DreamingOfSummer 🤣🤣🤣LOLOL!!! Although...it could be a very sad thing. Just imagine...gangs roaming the streets...business leaving in droves...the movie mogul predators and the emo actors and actresses all viciously bullying each other into politically correct submission and starvation...sad. The only ones left will be the billionaires, the millionaires and the drug lords and their servants and the gangs.
DreamingOfSummer · 26-30, F
@4meAndyou ummm... how's that any different than the way it is now?
4meAndyou · F
@DreamingOfSummer And you said you aren't good at making jokes!!!! LOL!!! Stop it...you're cracking me up...LOL!!!
TheProphet · M
Pretty sure we have 50 States, not 30. I'd be happy if California seceded and all the liberals went to live there and smoke dope and fuck each other up the ass and all that other liberal bullshit.
4meAndyou · F
@TheProphet Yeah, that typo is killing me. You are the third one to mention it. The paragraph below says 51st state.
TheProphet · M
@4meAndyou I know. You can edit it. Lol. Just playing with you.
4meAndyou · F
@TheProphet I will remember you in my will....LOLOL!!!
GoodoldBob · 61-69, M
You have that backwards. It is the eastern part of the state that wants to leave the whack irresponsible coastal cities
4meAndyou · F
@GoodoldBob They are dividing it into rural California and the coastal cities, and according to what I just heard on the news it is the coastal cities who wish to separate themselves.
GoodoldBob · 61-69, M
@4meAndyou Read the article yourself. It has been posted all over the internet. It's the rural eastern counties that want to leave because the imbecile Democrats in the coastal cities have made an absurd mess of everything.
4meAndyou · F
@GoodoldBob Well, that does make sense. On the news they had the cities on the coast highlighted in yellow, and had a large split filled with water showing where the split will be. They did mention that the group who wants to leave are conservatives.
Graylight · 51-55, F
I don't know why everyone's suddenly so mad at California. 40 million people. Have you ever lived a state that large? Florida has half that. Montana has a million and Wyoming just under 6 million. If a state of 40 million people wants to secede and you don't live there...worry about other things for the moment.
@Graylight I was reading through them too, and there was a decidedly racist tone, which saddens but doesn’t surprise me, really. Our President has finally pulled back his [b]sheet[/b] and admitted that it’s not as much about legality as where the immigrants come from. I’m rather disgusted with this impromptu Klan meeting.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@bijouxbroussard I'm gonna want to take a shower after this administration.
@Graylight Me too, although it’s let me know rather definitively exactly who and what some of my fellow countrymen are. 😞
Dale321 · M
Actually, it’s the rest of California that wants to be free of the Coastal Cities.
katielass · F
Interesting that calif is licking their lips over the billions that will be coming back home. They've even presented a bill to tax those funds at 50%. If they're not careful apple might just move out of the state. They do need the money badly.
4meAndyou · F
@katielass Funny you should mention apple. When I heard the news about how they plan to break the law and tax merchants who obey the federal law, and 10% surcharge resident businesses, I said to myself, "Silicone Valley will move out of California".
4meAndyou · F
@Underconstruction Typo. California was originally the 31st state, New California would be the 51st state.
ladycae · 100+, F
why all the deletions?
4meAndyou · F
@ladycae Oh. Also, I don't like name calling.
ladycae · 100+, F
@4meAndyou i suggest you add that to your questions, i do. for me it's insults and big honking memes that take up half a page lol
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Hmmm that would be interesting as the Original State of California would have the water sources and control the agreements for importing water from other states?
Oh well let's have another glass of wine and figure that out later..Dahhhling.
4meAndyou · F
@Tminus6453 Thank you...already mentioned by underconstruction, it was a typo, and 51st is mentioned in the paragraph below.
California seems to be keeping every deadbeat in that state up in welfare benefits. The west coast might be a lot better off if they can make their own laws.
4meAndyou · F
@Mondayschild You might be right. I haven't been there in a loooong time, but I did just hear on the news that if you get off the ramp to exit into LA it's like entering...um....skid row.
Peaches · F
@4meAndyou It's also where Bill Cosby's sons car broke down and he was killed! I use to live in CA and was so glad to be GONE!!!😥
rfhh1959 · 61-69, M
Short of a war secession that is not possible under the Constitution
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@rfhh1959 Maybe we are building The Wall in the wrong place.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
I thought there were 57 states.
katielass · F
@sunsporter1649 rotf... Only in oblamoworld, where ignorance thrives and truth dies like a weed.
TheProphet · M
@sunsporter1649 obama said there were. Wonder if he planned to grant statehood to some of the shithole countries Trump, our Glorious Leader, mentioned.
SW-User
People have too much time on their hands.
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User41 · 36-40, M
so what happens when global warming sinks their state?
ConcealMySins · 22-25, M
it might be good. 40 million is alot of people for one state.
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jackson55 · M
It would be cool but it will never happen. So Cal needs the North's resources to survive. Southern California needs the water and doesn't care where they get it. LA water and power reach clear to Utah for water.
Dale321 · M
These types of proposals often are considered rediculous at first but as time goes on they are gradually accepted.
strongbow · 46-50, M
A state full of liberal idiots, no surprise they are the poorest, let them become their own country.
pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M
@strongbow I'm surprised that Burnley123 doesn't live there with his logic of ""a religion being founded by a warlord has nothing to do with that religion or its followers being violent!... and look, if i pretend that every white person in the west for the last 100 years was a christian and pretend the middle east and the islamic conquest of most of the world didnt exist, christians killed way more!" But then again most fellow brits are deluded on the subject.
pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M
Go for it, let them see how it goes

 
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