One upping gerrymandering; Splitting California

[gyeonghwa]

Tim Draper filed a ballot initiative in December stating that because of recent social and economic changes California has become “nearly ungovernable.”

So the bitch is mad at prop 8 dying and at Covered California and California's transgender law and prop 30 (which means prop 13 is dying too) passing so he wants to kill California altogether and deliberately fracture the Bay Area and Greater LA in order for conservatives to get a shot at the senate. Obvious gerrymandering is obvious. Also if this didn't work in Colorado what makes you think it'd work here?

[Ghoti]

Split all the states. Split all the cities, too. Split all the neighborhoods and blocks and towns. Split apartment blocks. Split houses. Split floors. Split people.

Split atoms. Watch the world burn.

[Ironchew]

Here's at least an objective version of "Waaah, why can't the GOP win statewide elections anymore? We need to fix that!" To be fair, yes, they did split up Texas. Mormons were handed vast swaths of land in the west. Shasta and Rainier annexed two former states with little to no climatological similarity. Also, I guess they wanted Republicans in charge of the Mexican border:

[Old Viking]

Plate tectonics will handle this.