{"id":1777813,"date":"2022-12-16T12:06:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777813"},"modified":"2022-12-16T12:18:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:18:31","slug":"californias-fifth-largest-county-votes-to-study-succession-from-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/californias-fifth-largest-county-votes-to-study-succession-from-state\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Fifth-Largest County Votes to Study Succession From State"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornias-fifth-largest-county-votes-to-study-succession-from-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777813&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\">Residents of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Bernardino County, California<\/a> have voted to research the possibility of secession from the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Voters approved a ballot measure directing officials to look into the legal realities of separating from California to establish a new state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/san-bernardino-ends-decade-long-bankruptcy-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SAN BERNARDINO ENDS DECADE-LONG BANKRUPTCY STATUS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/640\/320\/san-bernardino-homes.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Residential homes stand in the city of San Bernardino, California, July 11, 2012.\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Residential homes stand in the city of San Bernardino, California, July 11, 2012.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Jonathan Alcorn\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>However, even with approval from voters and officials, a separation from the Golden State is a longshot proposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This attempt to create a new state \u2014 which would be the first since Hawaii in 1959 \u2014 is a proposition for the county just east of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles<\/a>, which has suffered from sharp increases in cost of living. It would hinge on approval by the California State Legislature and Congress, both of which are highly unlikely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/san-bernardino-oakland-los-angeles-california-ranked-among-uss-most-dangerous-cities-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SAN BERNARDINO, OAKLAND AND LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA RANKED AMONG US&#8217;S MOST DANGEROUS CITIES: STUDY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/GettyImages-75363169-e1671201131232.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA - JULY 11: A gated community housing project overlooks a rural landscape that is being rapidly converted into a vast suburb as a construction boom continues in San Bernardino County. (Photo by David McNew\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA &#8211; JULY 11: A gated community housing project overlooks a rural landscape that is being rapidly converted into a vast suburb as a construction boom continues in San Bernardino County. (Photo by David McNew\/Getty Images)<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">((Photo by David McNew\/Getty Images))<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There have been more than 220 attempts to break up California over its 172-year history, all of which have failed. Secession requires approval by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congress<\/a> and the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>San Bernardino is a 20,000-square-mile county with a population of over two million residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exploration of secession is a result of discomfort among the county&#8217;s diverse population with a rapidly growing homelessness problem, perceived overtaxation and an inability to control <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/true-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/GettyImages-75363171-e1671201229751.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"A gated community housing project overlooks a rural landscape that is being rapidly converted into a vast suburb as a construction boom continues in San Bernardino County.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      A gated community housing project overlooks a rural landscape that is being rapidly converted into a vast suburb as a construction boom continues in San Bernardino County.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(David McNew\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The city of San Bernardino filed a bankruptcy case in 2012 after grappling with a dire cash shortage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Scott Clarkson closed the case in September, because the city had resolved claims and has shown that it can pay its outstanding long-term obligations.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of San Bernardino County, California have voted to research the possibility of secession from the state.\u00a0Voters approved a ballot measure directing officials to look into the legal realities of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1777818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,4036,3662,9675,3819,4866,9676,4030],"class_list":["post-1777813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-californias","tag-county","tag-fifth-largest","tag-report","tag-study","tag-succession","tag-votes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1777818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}