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The California State Senate voted on June 4, 1965, to divide California into two states, with the Tehachapi Mountains as the boundary.
Six Californias was a proposed initiative to split the U.S. state of California into six states. It failed to qualify as a California ballot measure for the 2016 state elections due to receiving insufficient signatures. Venture capitalist Tim Draper launched the measure in December 2013.
Jun 3, 2024 · By the time California became a state on Sept. 9, 1850, it had already survived the first attempt to split it — an unsuccessful last-minute amendment in the U.S. Senate that would have divided California in two, just north of Morro Bay.
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Cal 3 was a proposal to split the U.S. state of California into three states. It was launched in August 2017 by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper, who led the effort to have it originally qualify on the November 2018 state ballot as Proposition 9, officially the Division of California into Three States initiative. [1]
Sep 21, 2021 · Should California be split into two states? Three? Six? At the very least, we're due for another round of intrigue on an eternal question about the Golden State.
- Patt Morrison
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- patt.morrison@latimes.com
Jun 13, 2018 · With a complicated path to reality and the state’s political and business establishment lined up firmly against it, the proposal to split California into three separate states appears to be the longest of political longshots. But the move would not be completely unprecedented.
Jun 14, 2018 · California would break into three states — Northern California, California and Southern California. The measure aims to create states with relatively equal populations and economic strengths.
