Source: SFGate
“Amid the passage last week of Proposition 50, which approves newly drawn U.S. House maps in California to favor Democrats during next year’s midterm elections in response to Republican gerrymandering efforts in other states, one California politician is pushing a new plan as a way for Republicans to fight back: to split the state down the middle. State Assemblyman James Gallagher, who represents several counties north of Sacramento, spoke firmly to the Shasta County board of supervisors during a public meeting on Thursday, Nov. 6, saying the passage of Prop. 50 was a ‘catalyst’ for him to reintroduce a resolution that would form a new state out of multiple dissatisfied California counties. The proposed new 51st American state would sever the entirety of more rural inland California from the coast.” (11/10/25)