It looks like we're going to have a ballot initiative in my state to turn my state into six states. There seems to be two main premises behind this. One is that instead of all of California being represented by two senators in Washington, the same body of citizens would get twelve senators. That, of course, is why Congress will never agree to allow this to happen and why if it did, Texas would start carving itself up into ten separate states and New York would be twelve and Alaska would have one state per otter and so on.
The other notion is that since California is such a diverse state, you could have more localized representation. The problem with that, of course, is that you'd have to set up six new governments and everyone would be arguing over the boundaries and claiming they were being gerrymandered out of having a voice.
And there's kind of a third, unspoken premise here. The slicing and dicing would create richer states and poorer states. The tax dollars collected in the richer states could then be spent to improve life in the richer states without any of it going to aid those in what would become the poorer states.
This is never going to happen even if somehow the people of California can be hustled into voting for it. But a lot of time and money will be wasted campaigning for and against it and voting and there will probably be loads of legal challenges to this or that aspect of it in our courts. If this were an E.C. horror comic, it would all end with the guy behind it being split into six separate parts.