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What would happen if California were split in twain, with all counties north of San Luis Obispo as "North California" and all south of it, including Baja California, as "South California" with regards to presidential elections? I couldn't change the title of this thread, so apologies there, but how do you think these two Californias would evolve? Would they still have the budget issues OTL California has? Which parties do you see controlling these two states?

(I'm assuming a USA that took California, New Mexico, Texas, Republic of Rio Grande, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja after the Mexican-American War)


A side question is, if we keep California as in OTL, which PoD would be necessary so that the state legislature would be fiscally conservative, or fiscally conservative Republican, a majority of the time since 1959? The state currently has a multiple billion dollar deficit for a variety of reasons, so my question would be how to prevent that on a state level.

Admins, this should be moved to "before 1900" if possible. Thanks!
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