You better hurry up, North Dakota

Off of yesterday's piece on North Dakota failing to constitutionally meet the requirements for United Statehood, we get this off the wire from CNN this morning.

Now, normally I'd be totally for splitting southern and northern California into two states.  Just ask any Californian - San Franciscans hate being in the same state as Los Angelinos, and vice versa.  They have very different cultures, very different vibes.  Not to mention the state is huge - it could spare being split up.

That is, I was until I actually saw this "conservative" Riverside County supervisor's plan:

It would be composed of 13 largely Republican counties, most of which are inland along the Nevada and Arizona state lines. The plan would exclude Los Angeles County, but would include Orange and San Diego Counties, both on the coast.

So really this is just jerrymandering, which is then backed up by his reasoning for the drastic measure of seccession:

Stone has a long list of grievances against the state and its legislators: high taxes and fees, inability to reform welfare programs, high unemployment and excessive regulations...Stone, a pharmacist and owner of an innovative compounding pharmacy, said he drew the lines for a new state by picking 13 counties that were contiguous and fiscally conservative or moderate.

The first part there is actually my favorite part, the "state officials have done all these bad things to us."  YOU VOTED THEM THERE!  It's partly your responsibility you are in this mess!  It is such a typical pseudo-conservative answer today, that now that we are in this mess for reasons we are partly accountable to the only way to solve our problem is to cut everything off completely.  Makes perfect sense!  And because taking we won't be part of California anymore, we won't have all the fiscal problems they have.  Because its the state legislators and elected officials who have done this to Riverside:

Riverside County is among the hardest hit communities by the recession and mortgage meltdown, leaving many communities pockmarked with vacant homes, Stone said.
"We are the foreclosure capital of the world," Stone asserted. "We have some areas of the county that have 25% unemployment. The average in Riverside County is about 15%."

You would think that would be the responsibility of the person supervising the county, no?  Please someone vote this guy out of office.