One California is more than enough
The most stirring call to break up California came a quarter-century ago from Stockton’s own Pavement. Over the less than two minutes and 20 or so words of the band’s anthem “Two States,” they don’t offer much detail, but they do, for some reason, repeatedly shout, “Forty million daggers!”
Several more recent state-splitting proposals have been a lot less infectious and only a little more serious. We’ve endured attempts to make California six states, three states, 1½ states and, now, two countries. The latest from the leaders of the “Calexit” campaign advocates that California secede not only from the United States but from itself, with the inland half returned to Indian tribes — a gesture whose sincerity is diminished by the fact that the group appears to have closer ties to Russians than to Native Americans.
Another (adoptive) California band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, offered a more generous assessment of the state leading to a prayer against, not for, disintegration: “California’s been good to me. Hope it don’t fall into the sea.”
Josh Gohlke, editorial writer
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