RGJ.COM — There have been a lot of ideas over the years about carving California up into smaller states, but none in recent memory have both carved it into as many states, or been submitted for a place on the ballot, like the idea pitched by a Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
Tim Draper, whose bio touts his work on the concept of viral marketing, submitted to the attorney general’s office on Friday a plan to create six separate states out of California — an initiative he ostensibly hopes to qualify for next November’s ballot.
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State splitting seems to be somewhat in vogue in California as 2013 comes to an end. Following in the footsteps of generations of frustrated secessionists, north state officials have recently been circulating a proposal to create the otherwise mythic state of Jefferson. Supervisors in three northern counties – Siskiyou, Modoc, and Tehama – have all voted in the last few months to put an advisory issue on the ballot.
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