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January 20, 2018 08:00 pm

'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State

PolygamousRanchKid, Ayano, and an anonymous reader all shared the same story. Tribune Media reports:A group has launched a campaign to divide California into two states. It isn't the first attempt to split California, but unlike a failed campaign in 2016 to divide California into six states, the campaign to create New California would split the state into one made up of rural counties and another made up of coastal counties. USA Today provides some context:Breaking up California remains no easy task: A formal secession means getting approval from both Congress and California's legislature itself. But that hasn't stopped folks from trying. Hundreds of times... Monday's declaration of "the State of New California" marked the latest in more than 200 long-shot efforts to split the Golden State. All so far have failed.

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