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‘New California’ campaign wants to create 51st state by splitting rural areas from coast
01/17/18

A campaign aimed at creating a 51st state through separating rural areas in California from the state's coastal cities and the capital Sacremento launched this week, citing an "ungovernable" California.

The movement calls for "a free and Independent State" with "full power to establish and maintain law and order, to promote general prosperity," according to its "Declaration of Independence," released on Monday.
However, the movement is not calling to leave the U.S.

The "New California" movement claims California is a failed state due to its high taxes, a decline in health care, among other issues.

"There's something wrong when you have a rural county such as this one, and you go down to Orange County which is mostly urban, and it has the same set of problems, and it happens because of how the state is being governed and taxed," the campaign's co-founder Robert Paul Preston told CBS Sacremento.

The movement's leaders say they plan to work with the state legislature, which would have to hold a vote on dividing the state prior to submitting a resolution to Congress.

The group said it will take 10 to 18 months before they are fully prepared to work with the state legislature.

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/369302-new-california-campaign-wants-to-create-51st-state-by-splitting-rural