re: #92 KGxvi

Splitting California would likely mean more power for Republicans. There are a lot of parts of the state that still vote Republican, and depending on how apportionment would work itself out, Dems could lose seats in the House. Admitting DC would probably require a constitutional amendment to address the 23rd Amendment. And the statehood issue in Puerto Rico is still complicated - and we’ve no idea what a post statehood political landscape would look like there.

Lastly, as a life long Californian, the next time I hear someone say we should split up our state, I’m going to register my disagreement by kicking them in the genitals. We’ve recently passed the UK on the list of largest economies in the world (fifth!), we don’t need to be split up.

Splitting California in half would give Democrats two Senate seats in exchange for possibly losing one House seat (or not, or maybe even gaining one if we’re lucky). That’s a winning trade. Splitting the state North from South (already done by the State Senate in 1965) would produce one SFBay-dominated Democratic state and one LA-dominated Democratic state.