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The top Republican in the State Assembly will announce Wednesday a new bill to split California into two new states along a north–south line as a response to Gov. Gavin Newsom's mid-decennial redistricting effort, Fox News Digital has learned.

Assemblyman James Gallagher’s plan, laid out in what will be filed as AJR-23, would create a new state featuring its liberal coast and another uniting California’s conservative inland counties.

Gallagher, R-Yuba City, dubbed the move a "two-state solution" – a term more identified with territorial clashes in the Middle East – to Newsom’s own clash with Republicans, which is the governor's reply to Texas’ redistricting efforts.

"The people of inland California have been overlooked fo