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To: koan who wrote (83978)	7/27/2012 11:11:38 AM
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Sandow Birk, The Battle of Los Angeles (The Great War of the Californias), 1998, oil & acrylic on canvas, 64” x 120, Courtesy of Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City CA Splitsville By Vicki Haddock Secession and its discontents. The seething Northern Californians had decided enough was enough—it was time to quit the state for good. Rancor bubbled through the counties of Siskiyou, Shasta, Del Norte, and Modoc in 1941. Chief among residents’ grievances: Their roads were like washboards in the summer and mud baths in the winter. They felt overtaxed—steamrollered by Southern California and ignored in the capital. And so they announced their intention to secede from California, to join with rural Oregon and form a new state. The Yreka Chamber of Commerce planned to call it Mittelwestcoastia, but a newspaper contest procured a catchier alternative: Jefferson. Soon the rifle-toting renegades were throwing up roadblocks on Highway 99, handing stopped motorists a proclamation of independence and windshield stickers emblazoned with “I have visited JEFFERSON, the 49th State.” The Jefferson state seal featured a mining pan marked with XX—symbolizing how double-crossed people felt by the California down yonder. Selecting a local judge as governor, they staged a torchlight parade/inaugural extravaganza. The San Francisco Chronicle dispatched Stan Delaplane, whose reports on the rebellion would win a Pulitzer Prize. Even Time and Life magazines and Hollywood newsreel makers covered the December 4 inaugural. Three days later, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and Jefferson faded into oblivion... alumni.berkeley.edu