{"id":23133,"date":"2018-06-14T11:38:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T10:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23133"},"modified":"2018-06-14T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T10:38:51","slug":"how-many-states-should-there-be-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23133","title":{"rendered":"How many states should there be in California?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard about it on the American programme &#8220;The Daily Show with Trevor Noah&#8221;; now it&#8217;s been picked up by the British media including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-44471277\">this item<\/a> on the BBC website. It&#8217;s a proposal to divided the current US state of California into three and the proposition will appear on the ballot paper in November.<\/p>\n<p>The current state of California &#8211; the largest by population in the United States with some 40 million people &#8211; would be divided into: Northern California, roughly comprising the northern half of the state, including San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Sacramento; Southern California, stretching from Fresno to the US-Mexico border; and California, comprising six coastal counties between Los Angeles and Monterey.<\/p>\n<p>I had not realised that it was constitutionally possible to divide a state.\u00a0If approved, the partition of California would mark the first division of a US state since the pro-union West Virginia broke from secessionist Virginia in 1863 during the US civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Will the proposition be approved?\u00a0An April poll by SurveyUSA found support for the measure among registered voters was just 17%. But this is the age of Trump and Brexit &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard about it on the American programme &#8220;The Daily Show with Trevor Noah&#8221;; now it&#8217;s been picked up by the British media including this item on the BBC website. It&#8217;s a proposal to divided the current US state of California into three and the proposition will appear on the ballot paper in November. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23133"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23142,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23133\/revisions\/23142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}