拆分加州当然需要在华盛顿的联邦政府的批准，而在华盛顿政府中，加州选出的代表-主要来自奥巴马的民主党-在美国历史上她们从未像现在这样大权在握。
Creating more Californias would of course require the approval of the federal government in Washington, where elected representatives from California – mainly from Obama’s Democratic Party – have more power today than at perhaps any time in US history.