Technology Investor Wants To Split California Into Pieces And Turn Silicon Valley Into Its Own State

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TechCrunch has learned about noted technology investor Tim Draper’s plan to split California into six separate states, including a Northern California slice appropriately named “Silicon Valley

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It is about time California was properly represented with Senators in Washington. Now our number of Senators per person will be about average.

Y'know, Congress is designed so that the Senate and House have different numbers of congresscritters for a reason. The Senate keeps the large populous states from making decisions that hurt the smaller states, while the House is supposed to keep the small states from having undue influence out of proportion to their populations. (well, when they're not both being intractable butthead)

It's like you misunderstood civics class entirely.

and in that redistrcting to get new Senators, you'd likely lose some House districts because you now have uneven populations.

Plus you're now going to have to have state Congresses to deal with things. I'd sure that'll be awesome.

Facebook Investor Peter Thiel is funding a floating, sovereign libertarian utopia island. Investor Balaji S. Srinivasan infamously called for a separate “opt-in” territory for radical experimentation. Google’s Larry Page hinted at the same techno-utopian island.
I believe this either ends in SeaLand of the plot of Bioshock. Possibly both.

also I hope you libertarians picked a seamount as your island utopia, rather than an atoll or sea level rise is going to do you in. Not that anyone will really miss you...