That would have led to awkwardness for the NHL’s Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers.

Lord knows how the proposed state of Jefferson in the mountain NW out of parts of ID, OR, and Northern California, would fare. Really it’s a protest from conservative areas in California that feel alienated and might be a good tit-for-tat with a proposed state of Northern Virginia, though nowadays since it’s turned solidly blue advocacy on this issue has turned from yankees who felt unrepresented in red Virginia to the right, who vice versa, this is less of an issue.