But Who Gets Hemet?
Splitting California in Two Would Be Great, If It Made Any Sense
“Marriage is hard,” proclaimed New America Foundation Irvine Senior Fellow Joe Mathews. Schwarzenegger and Shriver couldn’t make it; Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries survived just 72 days. But California has stayed together for 161 uneasy years. That’s despite what one historian counted as over 200 proposals to split the state in one way or another. To kick off a Connecting California panel at the Fresno Art Museum, an event co-sponsored by the New America Foundation and The Bill Lane Center for the American West, Mathews asked a group of panelists …
