Yeah, I don't think so. If that was going to work, Quebec would have been a separate country from Canada, decades ago. Just because you think you can make your own country doesn't mean you will be able to, when you are talking about carving it from within an existing country.
I laughed when I read that they plan on modeling the split after the formation of West Virginia. That means they will have to wait for the next civil war and then join whatever side that old California does not.
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Voters will decide if California should be split into three states. A proposal that would split the state of California into three separate states has become eligible to appear on the state's ballots in November, California's Secretary of State has confirmed. Source 6w.
Wow we would have three states instead of two states. Maybe that will help many Californians have a say in things as they do not get much of a chance with the bigger cities telling all Californians what the state is going to do. I guess we see what happens in November if the US becomes 52 states instead of 50.