The plan is a gerrymander that maximally concentrates people likely to vote Democratic into one state along the coast.
Democrats have had enough of gerrymandering, and California is pretty blue these days. This won't pass.
Democrats have had enough of gerrymandering, and California is pretty blue these days. This won't pass.
http://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-political-geogra...
If all red states were to be winner-take-all in the electoral college, and all blue states were to split their electors according to vote percentages, that would not be more "representative".
Currently California is +2 Dems
In the new plan it would most likely be +2 Dems +2 Rep +2 Dems = +2 Dems
So no new gain. Where it would hurt would be the electorate college. California has 55, now 1/3rd of that would go to Rep.
I don't have an opinion on whether that's better or worse, but there are pros and cons. I doubt it will happen but it's a more plausible debate than succession at least.
Secession would be a cowardly abandonment of those who are treated poorly in other states.
New York City would be interesting because it seems like a split would really need to cross state lines which would make it really, really difficult.
"Florida has had a South Florida split talks in the past" - Municipal level
NY and CA are on a whole different level than anything else in recent history.
They would make the debate very strange, though. At least some of the agitation will sound literally foreign to our normal concerns.