Californians will supposedly go to the polls in the spring of 2019 in a historic vote to decide by referendum if California should secede from the United States and become an independent country…
New California Declares Independence From…California
…but that effort may be interrupted by a large area comprised of 17 counties in California which declared independence from the rest of the state as of Monday, January 15, 2018, according to this document:
After years of over taxation, regulation, and mono party politics the State of California and many of it’s 58 Counties have become ungovernable. The nature of the State becoming ungovernable has caused a decline in essential basic services such as education, law enforcement, fire protection, transportation, housing, health care, taxation, voter rights, banking, state pension systems, prisons, state parks, water resource management, home ownership, infrastructure and many more.
The geographic area in question would be known as the state of New California; and it already has a state flag and a variety of maps. Reasons for the establishment of the state of New California are listed here; as well as statistics such as the following:
New California will be the 6th largest State behind New York (bigger than Illinois and Penn), It’s Estimated 25-27 seats in the US House of Representatives will go to New California Old California will become the 2nd most populous state behind Texas and ahead of Florida, losing 25-27 seats in the US House of Representatives The 5 Southern New California counties have a population of just over 11million If they were to break away they would be a state the size of Ohio, probably larger as some other counties might join.
Summary
The supposedly burgeoning future 51st state of the United States already missed the deadline of its goal “to be at 40 ratified counties by January 1, 2018” — both in terms of the date and number of counties. The probability of a new state for you to visit — and “collect” — is still low at this time.
Also, northern portions of California want to secede and become the state of Jefferson — and of course, that does not include the possibility for the District of Columbia to become a state as well.
The naming of the new state is interesting. All of the states which begin with the word new — New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire and New Mexico — did not secede from states in the United States called York, Jersey, Hampshire and Mexico; and states which share a name typically have a direction in front of them: North Dakota, South Dakota, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and…Virginia.
Perhaps the name of the new state should further differentiate itself from the rest of present-day California — lest it is to suffer the fate of eventually tumbling into the sea…
Source: New California.
