Split California Into 3 States Map

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Split california into 3 states map. North and south california. For the first time since before the civil war voters across california will decide in november on a proposal to split up the golden state potentially remaking it into three new states. California northern california and southern california subject to approval by us congress. Northern california would include the bay area all the way to the oregon border southern california would begin in fresno and cover most of the southern.

The california legislative analyst s office released this map showing the proposed split. The state is geographically divided into two. Cal 3 was a proposal to split the u s. State of california into three states.

Map april 12 2018 there s an effort to split california into three new states that s gaining steam and it may be heading to the ballot box in the 2018 midterm election. Californians will vote whether to separate into three states. Map of the three californias. Draper s plan calls for three new entities northern california california and southern california which would roughly divide the population of the existing state into thirds.

The split would look like this. After the mexican. California was partitioned in its past prior to its admission as a state in the united states what under spanish rule was called the province of the californias 1768 1804 which stretched almost 2 000 miles 3 200 km from north to south was divided into alta california upper california and baja california lower california in 1804 at the line separating the franciscan missions in the north from the dominican missions in the south. Draper backed a proposal to turn california into six states in 2014 but it failed to get the required number of signatures to qualify and the measure was not presented to voters in the 2016 polls.

California is the third largest state in the country in terms of area and borders the states of nevada oregon arizona the pacific ocean and also shares an international boundary with baja california mexico. It was launched in august 2017 by silicon valley venture capitalist tim draper who led the effort to have it originally qualify on the november 2018 state ballot as proposition 9 officially the division of california into three states initiative in july 2018 the supreme court of california pulled it from the ballot for further state constitutional review.