GRAPHIC: Could San Bernardino County become a state?
San Bernardino is roughly the same size and population of New Hampshire and Vermont combined. If San Bernardino were a state, here’s how counties would look with New Hampshire and Vermont’s 22 county boundaries laid over it.A new state would need its own flag and one for each county. What would that look like? Here’s a closer look at the current county flag:
The seal is the shape of an arrowhead. Inside are scales positioned over the mountains, with a train passing through the valley’s agricultural fields. At the top is the flag of California and the United States Great Seal.The Constitution declares that statehood requires the approval of both the U.S. Congress and the states’ legislatures. The territory applying for statehood must have a certain minimum population and a majority of its residents must favor statehood. The process can take decades.
The U.S. Congress — both the House and Senate — pass, by a simple majority vote, a joint resolution accepting the region as a state.On the average, more than 100,000 Californians migrate to Nevada and Arizona annually to escape California’s high cost of living. With the formation of a new tri-state area, here’s how the state of San Bernardino’s cost of living would compare to its neighbors, assuming there would be no state income taxes, which would be enticing.As of the 2020 U.S.
Sources: San Bernardino County, American Community Survey, Analysis by UCR Center for Economic Forecasting and Development, California legislature
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