To paraphrase, a handful of counties in northern California and southern Oregon have been pushing for succession from southern Californian Hollywood nymphomaniacs and Portland-Salem eco-psychos for the past 67 years. They are pushing for their own statehood, and want to call themselves "Jefferson"...check it out at www.jeffersonstate.com. Can you blame them? Not really. I'm sure that there are tons of conservative counties in blue states across the country that want to secede, and probably, rightfully so. California's state tax is astronomically high, which kills small towns outside of metropolitan areas, which are dependent on their local economies.
These days, it doesn't seem like a realistic concept, does it? Heck, Puerto Rico can't even do it, its still a commonwealth. Alaska's Independence Party didn't get it done when they elected a pro-succession Alaskan governor back in the 1990s. I'm sure there have been countless efforts that didn't garner any steam, mostly from red-state rubes, right?
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