Splitting up California?
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper presents his driver’s license to Heather Ditty, elections manager for the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters, as he turns in boxes of petitions for a ballot initiative that would ask voters to split California into six separate states. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)
Tom Knorr holds a State of Jefferson flag in Corning, Calif. The idea of forming their own state has been a topic among local secession dreamers for more than a century in the state. (Terry Chea / Associated Press)
Molly Kelley, 62, of Klamath River, holds up a State of Jefferson flag as she folds it inside the Klamath River Community Hall in California. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Molly Kelley, 62, of Klamath River, holds up a State of Jefferson flag as she folds it on Nov. 20, 2013. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Pedestrians cross Miner Street in Yreka, Calif. Yreka, the would-be capital of the State of Jefferson, began as part publicity stunt, part political gesture. (Jeff Chiu / Associated Press)
Main Street is quiet, with very little traffic, in the small town of Etna, Calif., in scenic rural Scott Valley, in Siskiyou County. The county is one of several that backs separating much of Northern California into its own State of Jefferson. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Tim Draper, a venture capitalist from Menlo Park, is pushing for a plan to split California into a half-dozen separate states. (John Todd / Associated Press)