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Kind of a damning comment on our political system underlying this - that political unities with different demographic and political philosophies consider splitting the state a more palatable option than working with the other side. That being said, depending on what kind of neck-so-red-it-looks-like-they're-wearing-a-scarf voter group one was dealing with, I kind of get it. Is California really this split ideologically?
I think this is a predictable result of highly centralized government running a large geographical entity. The entire US is facing these kinds of pressures. I think federalism has been an effective safety valve in the past, but neither side seems to care for it much these days.
California itself seems to have undergone dramatic demographic change in just a few decades. I wonder how much that adds tot he normal political strife.