Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:13:30 AM
The Los Angeles Times, analyzing a poll they did with USC, notes certain divides in California, though a general agreement on pessimism. Cathleen Decker reports.
One always presumes a fair amount of communal thought in a state, even one this large. But apart from a shared disdain for the governor and the Legislature, there is hardly anything communal anymore in California politics.
I've said it here many times before, and I’ll say it again – the state needs to be split up.
"There are dozens of different Californias -- hundreds, demographically -- and every single one of those Californias thinks the rest of them are wrong about everything," said Dan Schnur, head of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at USC, whose College of Letters, Arts and Sciences co-sponsored the poll with The Times.
Actually, the paper goes on to detail a noticeable split between the coastal area and in the inland area in various demographic and idealogical indicators.
I maintain that a if San Francisco and Los Angeles County, and the coastal counties between them, and perhaps a couple of others in the Bay Area were to split off from the rest of California, the remainder of California would be better off - either staying together, as one, or further dividing, perhaps with the areas being annexed to neighboring states. (Those states would not only gain some fine resources, but they wouldn't have their Senatorial representation diluted if the number of states remained at fifty, and they would have a larger House of Representatives presence.
Will it happen? Not without a miracle. Most likely, we're just going to continue to see California kill itself financially, and the would-be social engineers on the Left grow increasingly bitter as the rest of us fight to keep them from dragging the state too far into the cultural dump.