South California?
July 2nd, 2011These aren’t the suburbs of the Lane Meyer and Ferris Bueller days. These suburbs are Snowcrash style corporate burbclaves, complete with mercenary armies, shakedowns and worse.
—Visions of Teen Angst, Then and Now
Via: CBS:
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone apparently thinks so, after proposing that the county lead a campaign for as many as 13 Southern California counties to secede from the state.
Stone said in a statement late Thursday that Riverside, Imperial, San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, Kings, Kern, Fresno, Tulare, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa and Mono counties should form the new state of South California.
The creation of the new state would allow officials to focus on securing borders, balancing budgets, improving schools and creating a vibrant economy, he said.
“Our taxes are too high, our schools don’t educate our children well enough, unions and other special interests have more clout in the Legislature than the general public,” Stone said in his statement.
