So, what's all this talk about splitting up California into three states? I may sound like some crazy conspiracy theorist here, but we're SURE it's not really a scheme to decrease the amount of sway Democrats hold in federal elections? California holds more electoral votes than any other state due to its population, and has also gone Democratic in every presidential election since 1992. The states would be divided in such a way that much of rural California, the Inland Empire, and Orange County would constitute its own state and be the 4th most populous state in the U.S: larger than the other two proposed states. A quick glance at a California political map by county would reveal that rural California, the Inland Empire, and Orange County generally lean Republican. Possibly an attempt to give those areas more sway? I know, I sound a little crazy. Tim Draper (a billionaire who claims to have collected over 600,000 signatures for getting this proposal on the 2018 ballot) has been trying to get California divided into several states for several years now...