Get ready for Calexit!

[The Scotsman]

Now Nigel Farage and the 'Bad Boys of Brexit' set their sights on splitting California in two

Daily Mail

• Nigel Farage and Leave backer Arron Banks just returned from a trip to California
• They helped raise $1million for a 'Calexit', which would split California in two
• The appear to be pitting the eastern, more rural side of California against the western 'coastal elite' liberals in Los Angeles and San Francisco
• The eastern part of California would more likely vote Republican, giving the party two more senators and electoral college votes for a 2020 election
• The Western side of the state would likely continue to vote Democrat
• The goal is to hold a referendum during the US midterm elections in 2018

The 'Bad Boys of Brexit' who led the campaign to break Britain away from the European Union have taken on a new exit challenge: splitting California into two states.
Former UKip leader Nigel Farage and Leave backer Arron Banks have just returned from the United States, where they helped raise $1million (£800,000) for a 'Calexit' campaign, which would split California into two eastern and western regions.
There are several 'Calexit' campaigns competing for a referendum in the United States, with one aiming to remove the state from America entirely as a response to President Donald Trump being elected last year.
Farage and Banks, who led the 'Leave.EU' campaign, appear to be pitting the eastern, more rural side of California against the western 'coastal elite' liberals in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Wigmore said that those who raised money - agriculture tycoons and tech entrepreneurs - have felt 'left out since [Former President Ronald] Reagan'.
'This has been done before with West Virginia and Virginia and North and South Dakota, so it can work,' he said.
Banks added: 'We were saying that people said the same about Brexit — and we just went and did it. The money was pledged to take it to the next level. This could be the greatest political showdown ever.'

Good old Nigel... I wonder if Mexico has pledged some cash...

 

[PLC1]

This is nothing new. There is a movement to split California into North and South as well, but just where the dividing line is supposed to be I'm not sure.

Then, there's the new state of Franklin, carved from Northern California and Southern Oregon, where folks want to get away from liberal voters in San Francisco and Portland. Drive through the area, and you see signs declaring that you're in the State of Franklin.

Such a state would add two Republican senators to Congress for sure.

Then, there was a proposal to carve California into six states, but that one seems to have faded out.

And, of course, there's the move to bring back the Bear Flag Republic and make California an independent nation once again. That one doesn't seem to get much traction.

 

[The Scotsman]

This is nothing new

... yeah but mate, we've offloaded our secret weapon now Nigel and his band of merry men are on the case!

 

[dogtowner]

Maybe it's easier to drop a few bunker busters on the San Andreas fault and let west California become Atlantis II.

 

[PLC1]

Maybe it's easier to drop a few bunker busters on the San Andreas fault and let west California become Atlantis II.

Just let nature take its course. Eventually, the state will split off, and SF and LA will be on an island, and we in the Central Valley will have ocean views.

 

[dogtowner]

Just let nature take its course. Eventually, the state will split off, and SF and LA will be on an island, and we in the Central Valley will have ocean views.

See ? It's all good.