Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split

Daniel_Stuckey writes that venture capitalist Tim Draper has mooted a plan "to split California into six separate states, he told Tech Crunch, with Silicon Valley emerging as the richest and most powerful of all. The mockery is already pouring in. Of course a rich tech guru wants Silicon Valley to get its own government, so it can be freed from the dusty laws and regulations of California 1.0. Of course a deep undercurrent of self-aggrandizing narcissism runs through the proposal — only one other state-to-be gets an actual name, (inexplicably, 'Jefferson') and the rest are lazily affixed with topographical descriptors: West, South, Central, and North California...Yes, in shaping his doctrine, Draper has conjured the perfect blend of Seasteading's offshore tech nirvana lawlessness, boilerplate Tea Party antiestablishmentarianism, and good ol' secessionist chutzpah."

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Jinx

[Anonymous Coward]

Any mention of 'Splitting up California' is just tempting fate at this point..

Re:Lets to the opposite and merge

[DexterIsADog]

By George, I think you've hit on exactly the right solution! Merge all states, so that they are a single entity. That's brilliant!

Now, what could we call this entity? The Grouped Together Localities? The Aggregated Places Between Mexico and Canada? The Strongly Connected States of America?

Well, I'm sure we'll come up with something.

Re:Allow me to burn som Karma by saying

[NouberNou]

Nah California can go fuck itself. You're liberals aren't realistic and you have way too many conservatives.

Signed, Cascadia