In far northern California, independence is a state of mind - San Jose Mercury News: "YREKA, Calif.—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 for those in the know, the name—a slogan from a quixotic past—says a lot about the state of mind in this wild, beautiful and sparsely populated country.
Jefferson, a would-have-been 49th state made up of a handful of neighboring counties in northern California and southern Oregon, lasted only a few days in 1941 before it was squashed by the cold reality of Pearl Harbor."
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