New California doesn’t want to leave the United States, they just want to leave California and have begun official steps to do just that!
Their solution: Take over most of current-day California, including many rural counties, and leave the coastal urban areas to themselves.
The split would look something like this, per the group:
The group is insistent that it is following correct procedures in establishing the proposed new state under Article 4, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution.
Unlike the original Calexit movement, which is looking for independence from the United States for the entire state of California, the New California group wants to remain a part of the US but it no longer wants to be governed by the state of California.
With the reading of their own version of a Declaration of Independence, founders of the state of New California took the first steps to what