re: #283 Dr Lizardo

I wouldn’t be terribly shocked if that were the case. They’d be a smallish state, to be honest.

Most of those are largely rural counties, and to be honest, I don’t know what their respective economics look like. As far as eastern Washington and eastern Oregon go, I’ve been to Pendleton, OR and Spokane, WA a couple of times. Not bad places, to be fair.

I’ve done work with a lot of those counties. Some are more rural than others—Butte and Mendocino seem to have some semblance of county structure. Some of the others are pretty dependent on their connectivity to Sacramento. Some of them are pretty much mountains and reservations.

There’s a Keep It California group against the whole Jefferson idea—here’s their fact sheet. (Their tagline is— If it were a business proposal, would you invest in the “State of Jefferson”)

keepitcalifornia.org

Also, want to mention that the head Jefferson guy does much of his talking on “Agenda 21 Radio”—yeah THAT Agenda 21.