Point of Order: it's more complicated than just the Cal citizenry didn't care. It's that + badly-crafted Initiatives (with great intentions, but no funding sources), a hopelessly partisan (and therefore useless) Assembly who, failing in their own jobs, pass the decisions onto the voters via those badly-written Initiatives, that get passed by a simple majority of voters who managed to show up at the polls that day.
We (California) are in dire need of a Constitutional Convention, to re-craft how Cali Law is made.
As a footnote, I point out that California was also an Independent Republic for awhile; for a total of about 21 days. Somebody thought it'd be a good idea to get a US sailor-boy to hoist the Stars and Stripes near Sacramento - bam! we became a colony of the US, and later, a State. One can only wonder what life might be like in the Republic of Califia.
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