Sactowndog
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Couple of things need to happen in order of that to come to pass.
Article IV of the United States Constitution provides for the creation of new states of the Union, requiring that any such creation be approved by the legislature of the affected state(s), as well as the United States Congress.
Last I checked the CA. legislature is a majority Democrat and would be hard to convince a legislature that is controlled by one party that they should allow a portion of the state to form another within it's boundry, especially if that state will be dominated by the opposite party. Having said this, given CA. financial problems, the idea of a state like California doing such a thing is not without merit, in that those cities, towns, and citizens that go into the new state are no longer an impact on the budget of California. I would not look for this to happen anytime soon though, because the last state to do this with was West Virginia in 1863, since then several have tried and have gotten no where.
I am not a lawyer but I think voters can bypass the Legislature via the initiative process and force the legislature to partician the state into three seperate entities. Whether they would is unlikely but many Californians would tell you perhaps we should.