Northern California County Board Votes For Secession From State
A far Northern California county where residents have complained they lack representation at the state capitol wants to separate from California.
The Record Searchlight of Redding reports that the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Tuesday in favor of a declaration for secession.
According to the newspaper, residents of the majority Republican county lobbied the board in August to consider secession. In addition to a lack of representation in Sacramento, they cited concerns about water rights and a rural fire prevention fee approved by the legislature.
Supporters want other rural counties in Northern California and Southern Oregon to join them in the creation of a new state
I recently posted on the issue due to a secession movement in Colorado gaining steam. American Secessionists Step It Up A Notch. I also posted a map of the U.S. showing county-by-county election results from the 2012 election and circled areas that either are, or will be, ripe for secession. Here it is again with an arrow on the Northern California region, right where I had two circles: one around the red California interior and one around the blue coastal region of Oregon and Washington.
I cannot emphasize this strongly enough: it will only take one successful effort to redraw the state lines for secession spread across the entire nation. It simply makes too much sense, politically, economically and geographically in many parts of the country. Negative social mood is the icing on the cake and secession itself will be a way to cheaply and rapidly restore domestic tranquility.
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