A small group of supporters of the “New California State” movement rallied at the Capitol on Tuesday afternoon, reiterating their call to create a 51st state out of the rural parts of the Golden State ...

according to data from California Target Book. The vast majority of ballots have already been counted, but the next tranche of results from both Santa Clara and San Mateo counties is expected to ...

The big population centers of San Francisco and Los Angeles would be in the first, but the inland state would include some large coastal counties ... that California will ever be divided.