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So California’s rebel secessionists think they’re taking Humboldt County, and the Emerald Triangle, with them when they leave the state, it appears. The latest split-the-state initiative was unveiled at a Sacramento press conference January 16, covered by USA Today. “The current state of California has become governed by a tyranny,” the group declared. Their proposed solution is to form the state of “New California,” taking most of the rural counties with them and leaving behind the heavily urbanized coast.
New California
The people behind “New California” ostentatiously proclaim that their founders—as represented by vice-chair and mouthpiece Paul Preston—have “declared independence from California.”
The accompanying map shows that only the coastal corridor between San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles would remain in old California. The state capital would remain Sacramento, as a panhandle would extend that far inland from the Bay Area. Significantly, San Jose and Silicon Valley would be annexed by New California. In the south, so would Orange County and San Diego. But they are going to really run into trouble in the north, where the secessionists claim everything above Marin County. This includes, of course, the cannabis-producing heartland of the Emerald Triange—Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties, by the narrowest reckoning.
The New California rhetoric is predictable. “After years of over taxation, regulation, and mono-party politics the State of California and many of its 58 Counties have become ungovernable,” the statement reads, citing a “decline in essential basic services” including education, law enforcement, infrastructure and healthcare. The group, organized around a council of county representatives, claims authority under Article 4 Section 3 of the US Constitution to become the 51st state. Their plan