Secession.

That word has come up time and again in California politics.

And the latest person to pitch the idea is Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher, who on Wednesday, Aug. 27, floated the idea — however unlikely — of having the Golden State’s 35 more rural or conservative inland counties break away from its generally more liberal coastal communities to form its own state.

Gallagher’s proposed map would split California in two, with the inland counties becoming the nation’s 51st state.

The new state — whose name is yet to be determined — would encompass most of Northern California as well as the Sierra Nevada, Central Valley and Inland Empire, which includes San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

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It would be made up of more than 10 million Californians, plac

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