Opinion: Secession fever hits state’s biggest county
Even though Californians by the million drive through it regularly en route to Las Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and other Western cities, some of San Bernardino County’s 2.2 million citizens feel neglected.
They especially want two U.S. senators of their very own, perhaps because San Bernardino County is often a bellwether in presidential elections, usually switching back and forth from party to party in tandem with national outcomes. Plainly, none of these plans passed muster, even though a few counties have voted for them from time to time.
Fontana Mayor Acquanetta Warren is a vocal proponent of a San Bernardino state. She gripes that the vast county, containing everything from myriad commercial warehouses to bedroom suburbs of Los Angeles to vast tracts of empty desert to some of the planet’s most advanced solar thermal power plants, is often “overlooked by the state and federal governments.”
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