I know this is mostly a joke, but I do think California is too big for its own good. Splitting it into Northern California, Southern California, and Eastern California (rename as needed) seems to make sense to me: it gives Eastern Californians a voice in the Senate, while also giving a separate voice to SF vs LA. I’m sure this would cause all sorts of other problems I’m not aware of, but what solution doesn’t?
I know this is mostly a joke, but I do think California is too big for its own good. Splitting it into Northern California, Southern California, and Eastern California (rename as needed) seems to make sense to me: it gives Eastern Californians a voice in the Senate, while also giving a separate voice to SF vs LA. I’m sure this would cause all sorts of other problems I’m not aware of, but what solution doesn’t?
The issue with the current U.S. federal setup is that rural communities are massively over-represented in the Senate.
1 senator in Montana represents around 650,000 people
1 senator from California represents 19.4 million people.
The biggest problem is that we wouldn’t have a nice round 50 any more!