There were other points of view, however.Įnough said. Some people thought the fixation on excluding the state’s urban areas smacked of racism. “There’s something wrong when you have a rural county such as this one, and you go down to Orange County which is mostly urban, and it has the same set of problems, and it happens because of how the state is being governed and taxed,” Preston told the network.Īccording to The San Diego Union-Tribune, “The new state, as envisioned, would exclude parts of California along the coastline from Orange north to Napa counties New California would include all other parts of California, including San Diego County, leaving the coastal stretch as California.” Indeed, the New California concept would “incorporate most of the state’s rural counties, leaving the urban coastal counties to the current state of California,” CBS reports. Some are calling the efforts to secede from California “Cal-Exit.” The new California Republic would, to some degree, mirror the rural/urban divide that has played out in recent presidential elections. The only New California I will get behind /9ZKm39ZSO9

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