Commentary: Forget it, secessionists — we're one California, indivisible
by Susan Straight, Los Angeles Times
Feb 05, 2018
3 minutes
The latest California secession movement showed off its fantasy map of the state last month. It's kind of hilarious. It splits us this way: Old California looks like a narrow chain of counties starting with Sacramento, Solano, Napa, Sonoma, and heading south around San Francisco Bay and down the coast, ending with Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles. Fifteen total. That's it.
New California is everything else: 43 counties the secessionists appear to believe are made up mostly of pristine mountains, gold-tinged waves and right- (not left-) thinking citizens, preferably U.S.-born.
These rebels filed for divorce
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