If California were two states.....

California is easily a nation-size state and could easily be split into two and you'd still have two huge states. I'm not advocating dividing California in half, but I am curious: what would it be like if you did. So what would happen if we had two states, rather than one: Northern California and Southern California? For the sake of argument, I'll put the stateline right through the pools at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, putting Big Sur in both states. If this happened.... 1. Would Northern California have more in common with Washington and Oregon than with Southern California? 2. Southern California would have an enormous net gain in population through immigration and a net loss in domestic immigration. What would these statistics look like in Northern California? 3. Would quality of life issues improve in NoCal if SoCal was a separate state? 4. What would happen to water rights in the newly divided two states? 5. Would a divide accenuate Asian political power in the north and Hispanic political power in the south? 6. How alike and how different would the two new states be?>