Five states by Keith

My proposal for a new California cordons off the tech gentry from the communities they are gentrifying by confining them to Santa Clara and San Mateo counties (Wall Street West). The rest of my state divisions are fairly intuitive—coastal Ecotopia, SoCal, SierraLand and the productive Inland Empire.

Population

Estimated
median income

Voter registration

Race/Ethnicity

California
statewide

37,325,068

$61,400

Democrats	43.4%
Republicans	28.4%
Other	28.2%

Asian	13.4%
Black	5.8%
Latino	37.6%
White	40.1%
Other	3.2%

Ecotopia

5,928,807

$68,455

Democrats	50.9%
Republicans	19.6%
Other	29.5%

Asian	16.1%
Black	6.2%
Latino	25.5%
White	48.2%
Other	3.9%

Wall Street West

2,509,576

$90,690

Democrats	46.6%
Republicans	21.2%
Other	32.2%

Asian	30.6%
Black	2.5%
Latino	26.3%
White	37.3%
Other	3.4%

Inland Empire

11,214,708

$52,728

Democrats	38.7%
Republicans	36.1%
Other	25.3%

Asian	8.1%
Black	6.2%
Latino	42.0%
White	40.3%
Other	3.4%

SoCal

16,785,158

$61,978

Democrats	43.8%
Republicans	27.3%
Other	28.9%

Asian	13.9%
Black	6.1%
Latino	41.9%
White	35.5%
Other	2.6%

SierraLand

886,819

$63,196

Democrats	29.1%
Republicans	43.7%
Other	27.3%

Asian	3.8%
Black	1.3%
Latino	12.3%
White	78.6%
Other	4.0%

Five states by Keith

Demographics