Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split

Daniel_Stuckey writes that venture capitalist Tim Draper has mooted a plan "to split California into six separate states, he told Tech Crunch, with Silicon Valley emerging as the richest and most powerful of all. The mockery is already pouring in. Of course a rich tech guru wants Silicon Valley to get its own government, so it can be freed from the dusty laws and regulations of California 1.0. Of course a deep undercurrent of self-aggrandizing narcissism runs through the proposal — only one other state-to-be gets an actual name, (inexplicably, 'Jefferson') and the rest are lazily affixed with topographical descriptors: West, South, Central, and North California...Yes, in shaping his doctrine, Draper has conjured the perfect blend of Seasteading's offshore tech nirvana lawlessness, boilerplate Tea Party antiestablishmentarianism, and good ol' secessionist chutzpah."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Any mention of 'Splitting up California' is just tempting fate at this point..

Re:Lets to the opposite and merge

[DexterIsADog]

By George, I think you've hit on exactly the right solution! Merge all states, so that they are a single entity. That's brilliant!

Now, what could we call this entity? The Grouped Together Localities? The Aggregated Places Between Mexico and Canada? The Strongly Connected States of America?

Well, I'm sure we'll come up with something.

Re:Allow me to burn som Karma by saying

[NouberNou]

Nah California can go fuck itself. You're liberals aren't realistic and you have way too many conservatives.

Signed, Cascadia

Re:Allow me to burn som Karma by saying

[mtrachtenberg]

Ah, the blissful European countries with cultural homogeneity. Perhaps they don't argue internally, I can't say I pay that much attention. I do recall hearing once or twice of the occasional war between one or two of them, and I note that they've attempted to form overarching economic and political structures in hopes of making such wars less common in the future than they've been in the past.

No doubt the internal arguments in the United States would be fewer if Utah, for example, were its own country. But the thought of a nuclear armed Utah doesn't strike me as an improved geopolitical situation.