Southern rebels demand break-up of the golden state

Southern rebels demand break-up of the golden state

Tired of liberals and state debt, southern Californian Jeff Stone has come up with a radical secessionist plan.

They can keep their giant redwood trees and Golden Gate Bridge.

They can even have booming Silicon Valley, Hollywood's world-famous hills, Napa's wine region and the spectacular coastline of Big Sur. And, let's be honest, will anyone really miss all those pot-smoking hippies who live north of Eureka?

Frustrated by the fiscally bankrupt mess that is Californian politics, and angered by what he sees as the never-ending succession of woolly liberals elected to its government, a conservative lawmaker from Southern California is proposing a radical solution to the Golden State's myriad problems: divide it into two.

Jeff Stone, a Supervisor from Riverside County east of Los Angeles, claims widespread support for his proposal, which formally launched this month and, in the unlikely event it succeeds, would increase the number of United States in America from 50 to 51.

The "two-state solution" will see the region known locally as SoCal secede from its northern counterpart. Mr Stone's bit, which will include San Diego, Orange County, and portions of Greater Los Angeles, where Republicans tend to live, will be highly Conservative. Its counterpart by contrast will be extremely liberal.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/southern-rebels-demand-breakup-of-the-golden-state-2319063.html