RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Thirteen mostly conservative counties would break away to create a 51st state known as South California under a proposal by an elected official.
Republican Jeff Stone has asked fellow members of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to support a motion to bring together officials from the 13 counties to discuss the idea. A vote on the proposed meeting is scheduled for today.
Stone’s version of South California would not include Los Angeles County. Instead, it would encompass coastal Orange and San Diego counties and more sparsely populated, inland areas such as Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Mono, Riverside, San Bernardino and Tulare counties.
Combined, those counties have about 13 million people.
