Oregon and California are much maligned as being completely liberal. I’ve heard people here calling for nuclear strikes on these states, or wish that they just “fall into the sea.” When it comes to the problems these blue dominated states are suffering from I’ve heard, “Fuck them! Those idiots voted them in! They deserve what they get!”
I understand. And I’ve lived/live in both states. California and Oregon are perpetually blue these days. On any given election you can pretty much just throw both states electoral votes to the Communist side. I cannot deny that. But I want you to consider these two maps of the two states, how they voted in this Presidential election, and rethink what you’ve accepted as truth.
First we’ll look at California. The state where I was born and lived for about 43 years.
Yes, a there’s a lot of blue cancer in there, no doubt. But I want you to take notice of the northern part of state. Those counties voted for Trump. But of course it didn’t matter because those are not major population centers. The state is ruled by the locations where the libs flock to in droves. Cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, etc. Huge population centers that render the conservative vote as an exercise in futility.
Now let’s look at Oregon.
LOOK AT ALL THAT RED! The only reason that Trump did not win Oregon is again . . . the major population centers here are infested by hordes of liberal vermin. I am proud that my county remains red, as it was in 2016. But all that red doesn’t matter because once again the major population centers votes dictate their vile Communist policies to the entire state. Twenty-six counties don’t matter because eight or so counties call the shots. It’s the same in a few other states as well.
An aside, don’t you think that the colors for the parties should be switched? Red = Communism in my book. Just a thought that has always seemed logical to me.
But back to the matter at hand. What to do about all these conservative counties in Northern California and most of Oregon?
I give you the State of Jefferson.
“In October 1941, the Mayor of Port Orford, Oregon, Gilbert Gable, said that the Oregon counties of Curry, Josephine, Jackson, and Klamath should join with the California counties of Del Norte, Siskiyou, and Modoc to form a new state, later named Jefferson.
He was motivated by the belief that these heavily rural areas were underrepresented in state government, which tended to cater to more populous areas.”
Which was and is ABSOLUTELY correct.
“On November 27, 1941, a group of young men gained national media attention when, brandishing hunting rifles for dramatic effect, they stopped traffic on U.S. Route 99 south of Yreka, the county seat of Siskiyou County, and handed out copies of a Proclamation of Independence, stating that the State of Jefferson was in “patriotic rebellion against the States of California and Oregon” and would continue to “secede every Thursday until further notice.”
“The state split movement ended quickly, though not before Del Norte County District Attorney John Leon Childs (1863–1953) of Crescent City was inaugurated as the Governor of the State of Jefferson on December 4, 1941.”
“The first blow was the death of Mayor Gable on December 2, followed by the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7. Those in favor of splitting the state focused their efforts on the war effort, which crippled the movement.”
And so it failed. But it hasn’t been forgotten.
“After the 2016 presidential election, it was noted that most of the rural California counties which would belong to the State of Jefferson were won in a landslide by Republican nominee Donald Trump, whereas Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoyed an unprecedented level of support in the rest of California, indicating a growing demographic and political divide between the proposed State of Jefferson and the rest of California.”
A divide indeed. Look at those maps. Why should we rural folks who vote overwhelmingly conservative be dominated by a few large cities consisting of milk toast weaklings whose beliefs go against everything we stand for?
Here’s what a proposed State of Jefferson looks like.
I say it’s not enough. I believe it should extend to all those red counties in Oregon in the previous map above. Election after election we are just banging our head against a blue wall of mold that absorbs all of our votes.
Now I don’t have the first clue about how to go about doing any of this, so if any of you know how this could work, please tell me.
Maybe the State of Jefferson will always be just a pipe dream but I, now more than ever, wish it to become a reality.
