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Posted on 05/28/2014 3:24:13 PM PDT by bamahead
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Residents of California's largely rural, agrarian and politically conservative far northern counties long ago got used to feeling ignored in the state Capitol and out of sync with major urban areas.
The idea of forming their own state has been a topic among local secession dreamers for more than a century. Residents in two counties will have a chance to voice that sentiment next week.
Voters in Del Norte and Tehama, with a combined population of about 91,000, will decide June 3 on an advisory measure that asks each county's board of supervisors to join a wider effort to form a 51st state named Jefferson.
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Many state-of-Jefferson meetings are held in conjunction with tea party groups, who share similar concerns over what Siskiyou County Supervisor Marcia Armstrong calls "so many nanny laws" coming from Sacramento.
"We are very libertarian in view, and we believe that people would have freedom to make their own choices as long as they don't impose on other people's rights," she said.
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Can’t say I blame them. I know several people from Northern California and they are surprisingly sane. I’d gladly trade them for Austin, which would fit right in with Southern California.
Not only is their ZERO chance of that it’s just stupid. ALL this has done is ensure that every LibTard here will vote. They know they are going to win anyway so some would sit it out. But this ensures they won’t.
And on the merits, it’s moronic.
It’s a great plan as long as the State of Jefferson produces two Republican US Senators and several GOP members of Congress.
If so, conservative areas of other Democratic states should be allowed to become their own state.
It would at the very least help the GOP win presidential elections.
I just had to post more. Time wasted on stuff like this just upsets me. SO SO SO much about which we can focus our energies. SO many great Conservative ideas.
Why don’t we just Balkanize the entire U.S.? How about the State of Austin? It certainly makes complete sense to split my old state of VA into 3. I bet we could split the U.S. into 300 states or more just based on the fact that “we don’t believe what you do”.
While we waste time with conspiracy theories and this kind of lunacy the Republic crumbles.
I think it’s kind of silly to chop up California.
It’s a non-starter in any event, because no State can be split up without the consent of its legislature (U.S. Constitution, Article IV, section 3), and the California legislature isn’t going to consent.
I have a very good friend who lives in San Bernardino. She was anti-gun until about a year or so ago, when she woke up. She has since become an NRA-certified instructor and runs her own women’s firearms training company, in addition to her regular job. I couldn’t believe what she told me last night. In California, in order for a handgun to be legal to sell, it has to be on the official “roster” of handguns approved by the state. She said that guns come off the roster all the time for various reasons, and that if a gun manufacturer wants to submit a new gun or a new revision to get it put back on the roster, it costs $1 million to do that - even if the change is as simple as changing the color. Sure enough, she sent me the link to the roster, and it’s right there in black and white.
Is this constitutional? Obviously not. Is there anyone in California that will do anything about it? LOL
Washington and Oregon have the same problem. East of the Cascade Mountains is farming and very conservative while the Western part of the states where the cities are is ultra liberal, -think San Francisco liberal. The farmers on the East side feel left out of government. The state lines should follow the mountain crest. We could have two new conservative States up here.
Great post.
Another pipe dream, time waster.
Breaking up the states by county would give us 3143 states, 6386 people in the US Senate, 10,0000 or so people in the House.
The Feds would get nothing done and we would all have home rule.
Or just blow Hollywood, San Francisco, and parts of Los Angeles to hell and save the whole state. Hey awolf will bite off its own leg to save itself...
i think central PA should have dibs on Franklin cuse he lived here.
I think Shasta has a reputation for New Age stuff so it's probably not representative of the actual population in a possible State of Jefferson.
and your problem with that is? ;-}
Slowly working our way towards Obama’s 57 states.
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