Six Californias

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Congress would have to approve any such application(s) for statehood. The odds that the republicunts would agree to allow 5 more potentially democratic states into the union are somewhere between "none" and "fucking none" at this point.

The Constitution merely declares that new states cannot be created by merging or splitting existing states without the approval of both the U.S. Congress and the states' legislatures.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress...odproc.htm