[Magdalen] Split California?

[Judy Fleener]

I had had the idea that the UP has lost a large percentage of its
population.  Not true from looking at statistics,  In 1900 the population
was 325,000.  Today it is 311,000.

On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 10:33 PM, Clarissa Canning <canplum at gmail.com> wrote:

> My brother lives there his iwife is from there, They love it. Houghton
> Flooded a few weeks ago. They dont like the heat.
>
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018, 8:03 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Upper Michigan has been trying to be its own State of Superior for a long
> > while, but many feel it couldn't go its own way economically. I haven't
> > seen comparisons, though: perhaps it would be comparable to one of the
> > smallest of the 50 states. I tend to think of the Upper Peninsula as
> mostly
> > pine forests, occasional waterfalls, cold beaches, and an occasional
> > hamlet, but there are some larger places up there as well. Clearly I need
> > to take a UP vacation. Still haven't done that...mainly just driven
> through
> > the eastern tip of it to get across the border into Canada a couple of
> > times.
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 5:13 PM M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > >>>I don't see that happening to California in the near future.<<<
> > >
> > > It's not gonna happen at all, at least not in our lifetimes.
> > >
> > > Think about the venomous bickering about WHERE TO DRAW THE LINES.
> (Ring
> > > any bells?)  Southern California (as it would no doubt be called) has
> its
> > > warring factions:  Orange County (what a friend of mine who's a news
> > > reporter down thataway calls "like living in a real live country
> song"),
> > > the desert innards, etc.  Central California would certainly have to be
> > two
> > > states what with the liberal Left Coast and the (shudder) Central
> Valley
> > > (San Joachin, anybody?; I honestly don't know where Sacramento would
> fit
> > > in; Mr Crawford, any ideas?).  And then there's the Northerners.  A
> > general
> > > blend of blue and red, leaning red, but please, dear people, don't
> forget
> > > the State of Jefferson (
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_(proposed_Pacific_state) ).
> > >
> > > M J (Mike) Logsdon.
> > >
> > > "Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.
> > > "Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.
> > > "...[My mouth is a] shithole..." -- 45th US President.
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
Western Michigan