By Bob Walsh
San Bernardino
County is about 20,000 square miles of mostly not that attractive
California real estate inhabited by about 2.2 million people. A couple
of days ago the County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously, 4-0, to
put a question on the ballot to determine whether or not the denizens of
the county wish to secede from the state and become an independent
state.
It is not like it
has never been done before. Twice in fact. Just not recently. It
would require the permission of both the California legislature and the
U. S. Congress to accomplish this task.
The
county is the largest county in the country. It is larger than Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware combined. It is the fifth
most populous county in CA.
It
seems that the board of supervisors isn't necessarily interested in
actually seceding, but rather to get more money from the state and the
feds. They are 35th on the list of the money that CA counties get from
the federal and state trough.
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