Some serious questions about Jefferson

[XemaSab]

I’ll get in trouble for saying this, but my biggest question for proponents of the state of Jefferson is this: How serious are you?

Depending on the answer to that question, I have more.

If the unspoken truth is that Jefferson is simply a way of yelling loud enough to get Sacramento’s attention — a kind of nuclear-option protest against the very real disregard with which our region is often treated — then there’s really not much more to ask. It will soar for a while, score some (mostly local) political points, and then fade into the history books as a distant aftershock of the 1941 movement.

That’s not what I hear, though. I hear secessionists saying they truly want to create a new state. Two counties’ boards of supervisors already have voted to move forward with secession. Redding’s City Council will discuss joining them Tuesday night. Proponents sound like they’re serious. I see no reason not to take them at their word.

If so, this is the project of a generation.

http://www.redding.com/news/2013/sep/28/silas-lyons-some-serious-questions-about/

[Old Navy]

1. Behind a paywall. How Republican of Redding.com

[Rex]

2. I have no idea what you are talking about.

More crazies wanting to leave the Union? I don't do redding.com

[Live and Learn]

3. Oh hell no.

There is no way I am driving through the redneck state of Jefferson to get to Oregon.

Not to mention, Redding would be nothing without the Shasta Dam for which Californians paid. And, no way in heck they are getting our redwood trees.

There are already states that these people would fit right in to. Why don't they just move to a state they would like better.