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Libya, London, Egypt – the map of unrest and revolution around the world right now is vast. In Sudan, it led to the country separating in two. Now Jeff Stone, a county supervisor from Riverside, wants something similar to happen, right here in California.
NEWSCASTER: Stone wants to form a new state. He wants to call it South California. The new state would be made up of 13 counties, but would not include L.A. or Ventura counties. Stone says he wants succession [sic] from – quote – “the liberal arm of California.”
This may be a radical idea, but it’s hardly a new one, as KALW’s Steven Short tells us in this report.
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August 30, 2011
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STEVEN SHORT: California – it’s the land of sun-filled beaches and atmospheric San Francisco fog, of fertile farmland and forbidding deserts. But political infighting could lead to a different vision of California. That’s what led Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone to propose sawing off the southern counties to make a new state.
JEFF STONE: This action was not made as a political stunt or a media statement. It was done on behalf of citizens that are taxed too much, and of businesses that are regulated too much and are fleeing the state.
Of course, this isn’t the first time someone has wanted Southern California to become its own state. As a matter of fact, Chuck Wollenberg, history professor at Berkeley City College, says the idea first arose shortly after California became the 31st state, in 1850. In those days, most of the population, along with the political power, was concentra...
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