 California secession movement wants a national divorce to avoid civil war in U.S. The leader of a California secession movement known as Yes California told Newsweek in an interview that a national divorce is needed to avoid another civil war. As politics have become increasingly polarizing in recent years there have been growing calls for residents in coastal-like states such as California, Texas and New Hampshire to secede from the rest of the United States. Yes California is currently campaigning on a ballot measure called Cal Exit 3.1 which would break California into two and establish a country separate from the U.S. in the San Francisco Bay area and along the Central California coast. The independent land would be called Pacifica. So far 92,000 people have signed up to join the campaign through the movement's website. However it's unclear how many of these people are California residents. The movement was founded in 2015 by conservative activist Louis Marinelli who is the current president of the movement and Marcus Ruiz Evans who was a conservative talk radio host at the time. Evans left the movement in 2021. So right now we're more working on the concept of national divorce as an alternative to potential civil violence and civil war in the country. Marinelli told our belief is that there's a lot of growing political violence and political problems in the country that may lead to fighting in the streets. Civil war too. Some people are calling for. We are trying to propose the idea of potentially doing a national divorce of some sort to avoid that type of situation.