Will there ever be a 51st state?
Workers talk at Global Harvest Foods, which produces birdseed and other grains, in the rural town of Akron in Washington County on Nov. 6. A day earlier, a majority in Washington and four other...
View ArticleCALIF. COUNTY WANTS TO BE ITS OWN STATE
YREKA Supervisors in a far Northern California county where residents are fed up with what they see as a lack of representation at the state capitol and overregulation have voted in favor of...
View ArticleColorado Secessionists Are Not Alone
Voters in 11 conservative counties in Colorado will decide Tuesday if they want to try to break away from a state that they feel has grown too liberal. The partition movement has been largely treated...
View ArticleViewpoints: A new state in Northern California would be an interesting...
No doubt most of you who have read reports about the votes by Siskiyou and Modoc County supervisors to split off from the rest of California think it’s a pretty silly idea. After all, it has virtually...
View Article2nd California county votes to secede from state
ALTURAS, Calif. A second far Northern California county has voted to secede from the state after Modoc County supervisors voted 4-0 in favor of secession. The vote on Friday comes just weeks after...
View ArticleSecession fever rises on rural Calif.-Ore. border
YREKA, Calif. (AP) — Since the 1850s Gold Rush, some folks in the rugged hills and valleys of Northern California and Southern Oregon have felt they would be better off if they could break away and...
View ArticleModoc becomes second California county to back secession drive
SAN FRANCISCO -- Modoc County, in remote northeastern California, has voted to join neighboring Siskiyou County in its bid to withdraw from the state and team with southern Oregon counterparts to go it...
View ArticleRural Californians rekindle secession movement
They're fed up with the state legislators who focus on California's big-city needs. They're tired of bureaucrats in Sacramento who govern from afar and by decree. And they're still miffed they didn't...
View ArticleBruce Maiman: Siskiyou wants to leave California? Why not let ’em?
A friend who manages 60 people in an industry known for high turnover takes the practical view: If they dont wanna be here, I dont wanna keep em. That should be our approach to Siskiyou County....
View ArticleIf At First You Don’t Secede
By Peter Hannaford on 9.17.13 @ 6:08AM California-Oregon border counties have been trying since 1852. On September 3 the board of supervisors of California’s rural Siskiyou County, right next to the...
View ArticleNORTH STATE SECESSION VOTE IS NOT JUST A ‘STUNT’
Sacramento Most Californians treat with bemusement the news that the Board of Supervisors in far-north Siskiyou County voted 4-1 this month to seek secession from California and revive efforts to...
View ArticleSecessionist dreams born in Delaplane's day
Hard Scrabble Creek, -- Chronicle reporter Stanton Delaplane won a Pulitzer Prize in 1942 for his reports on the secessionist movement in Northern California and southern Oregon. The rebel cause of...
View ArticleEditorial: Siskiyou secession is a silly stunt
Welcome to the latest county secession movement in rural counties of the West. Last month, it was four northern Colorado counties voting to put secession and creation of a new state “North Colorado” on...
View ArticleSecession brews in the ‘State of Jefferson’
ALTURAS — At the 1908 Niles Hotel, newly restored in this Modoc County outpost of 2,700 residents, cattlemen in spurred boots and leather chaps are back at the saloon. New local owners resurrected the...
View ArticleSecession brews in the ‘State of Jefferson’
ALTURAS -- At the 1908 Niles Hotel, newly restored in this Modoc County outpost of 2,700 residents, cattlemen in spurred boots and leather chaps are back at the saloon. New local owners resurrected the...
View ArticleSecession brews in the ‘State of Jefferson’
ALTURAS, Calif. — At the 1908 Niles Hotel, newly restored in this Modoc County outpost of 2,700 residents, cattlemen in spurred boots and leather chaps are back at the saloon. New local owners...
View ArticleNorthern California counties revive an old idea of a breakaway state
YREKA, Calif. — Farmers, ranchers and onetime loggers were among those who packed a church community room here in August to listen to a former state lawmaker convey his vision of a cleaved — and more...
View ArticlePeter Laufer: Secessionists harbor distinct state of mind
In case you can't hear the rumblings down elsewhere in the Golden State, residents in the far northern part of California aren't happy. They believe you people in the south are holding them back, and...
View ArticleCalifornia’s grumpy secessionists
In case you can’t hear the rumblings down there in the Los Angeles metropolis, residents in the far northern part of California aren’t happy. They believe you people in the south are holding them...
View ArticleCalifornia's grumpy secessionists of the far north
In case you can't hear the rumblings down there in the Los Angeles metropolis, residents in the far northern part of California aren't happy. They believe you people in the south are holding them...
View ArticleVoters in California contemplate forming the 51st state
Sacramento, Calif. • 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...
View Article2 California counties ask to form separate state
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Representatives of two counties in far Northern California petitioned state officials Thursday for the right to form a 51st state called Jefferson, formally asking state lawmakers to...
View ArticleNorthern California forming new state: Secession vote, Jefferson 51st state name
Is northern California forming a new state? Voters in the highly rural and traditional area will in fact have the opportunity to put their voices to the test with an upcoming secession support vote...
View ArticleSupport mounting in California to create 51st state
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — 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...
View ArticleTwo more Northern California counties may support breakaway state
Voters in Del Norte and Tehama counties will decide next week whether they should support a proposed move to secede from California and form a breakaway state of Jefferson. If approved on June 3,...
View Article2 more Northern California counties may support breakaway state
SAN FRANCISCO -- Voters in Northern California's Del Norte and Tehama counties will decide next week whether they should support a proposed move to secede from California and form a breakaway state of...
View ArticleNorthern California counties revive an old idea for a breakaway state
YREKA, Calif. — Farmers, ranchers and onetime loggers were among those who packed a church community room here in August to listen to a former state lawmaker convey his vision of a cleaved — and more...
View ArticleNo Stumping in Remote California County
YREKA, Calif. -- Bill Hoy remembers just one time in his 59 years that a candidate for governor of California campaigned all the way up here in Siskiyou County, along the Oregon line. "I know for sure...
View ArticleLost State Still Has Independent Streak
In extreme Northern California, far from the bright lights of Hollywood and the foggy charms of San Francisco, is a place unknown to most people: a handful of counties that once sought to make...
View ArticleJeffersonians rally for independence at the California Capitol
After a rally at the Capitol marked by chants of “The time has come for 51!” and a surprise appearance by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, supporters of the State of Jefferson presented their “declarations of...
View ArticleIn far northern California, independence is a state of mind
YREKA - Along the far northern edge of California, far from the bright lights of Hollywood and the foggy charms of San Francisco, exists a place many have never heard of - the State of Jefferson. But...
View ArticleCandidates skip remote northern California county
YREKA, Calif. -- Bill Hoy remembers just one time in his 59 years that a candidate for governor of California campaigned all the way up here in Siskiyou County, along the Oregon line. "I know for sure...
View ArticleIndependence is state of mind on California's frontier
Yreka, Siskiyou County -- Heading north on Interstate 5, between the Easy Street exit and the Oregon border, one crosses a mythical frontier. This is the state of Jefferson, the 51st of the United...
View ArticleAttempts to divide California have multiplied over the years
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone's proposal to create South California is the latest attempt in efforts dating back to the Yreka Rebellion and the 51st State Movement. 0 1 | By Steve Harvey, Los...
View ArticleState of Jefferson is a state of mind
YREKA, Calif. -- Some folks around here think the economic sky is falling and state lawmakers in Sacramento and Salem are ignoring their constituents in the hinterlands. Guess the time is ripe to...
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