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There are 58 counties of California currently.. California, the most populous state in the United States and third largest in area after Alaska and Texas, has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states since its admission to the Union in 1850, [1] including at least 27 significant proposals prior to the 21st century.
A viral post shared on X claims California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is purportedly considering seceding from the Union following President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 victory. Verdict: False ...
A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential election. In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a ...
A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.
White in 1869 that no state can unilaterally leave the Union. [19] Secession would require a US Constitutional amendment approved by two-thirds majorities in the US House of Representatives and Senate, [20] then ratification by 38 state legislatures. Analysts consider California's secession improbable. [20]
The latest effort to secede from California is growing in rural El Dorado County, which sits just east of Sacramento and has fewer than 200,000 residents. But experts say it's unlikely to take hold.
The list of county secession proposals in the United States includes proposed new counties to be formed from existing counties within a given state that have not yet been formed. For counties that want to secede from their current state and to join or create another, see List of U.S. state partition proposals .
California is home to multiple secession movements, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants you to know that as president he wouldn’t let the Golden State strike out on its own.