FOX NEWS -- Rural voters in California have had it with the Democratic majority in Sacramento and are pushing for their communities to divorce the blue urban areas that dominate state politics. 

Conservative residents in California's rural regions are tired of overregulation, the high cost of living and the myriad of policies coming out of the Democratic-dominated state Legislature, said Paul Preston, who founded New California State in hopes of splintering off from its current home. 

"We recognized that we were in a tyranny," Preston told Fox News Digital, citing the disparity between Democrats and Republicans in state government. 

Preston, a former school administrator, described California as a "one-party" state that operates similar to a communist regime by passing laws that disregard the rural class. 

Under the proposed map, New California State would comprise nearly all of California's 58 counties, except most of Los Angeles County and parts of Sacramento County, San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area. The map is purely a proposal and doesn't represent the final state borders, Preston said. 

Supporters contend breaking California in two would provide fairer and more responsive governance for areas outside the state's major cities. 

Preston noted that the proposed state would border Mexico in an effort to combat illegal immigration. Among his many grievances are California's crime woes, which prompted voters to recall San Francisco's district attorney in 2022 and Alameda County DA Pamela Price in November. In Los Angeles County, voters ousted DA George Gascon on Nov. 5 after only one term as critics blamed him for being too lenient on criminals. 

Voters also strongly passed tough-on-crime Proposition 36 last month despite efforts by state Democrats and Gov. Gavin Newsom to preserve a decade of criminal justice reform policies that critics say enabled criminals. 

"I don't think anybody's going to tell California that we are free from invasion and we're free from domestic violence," Preston said, citing crime and the flow of illegal migrants into the state.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Newsom's office and state Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a Democrat. The California Democratic Party said no one was available to comment on the matter.