Siskyou County borders Oregon, northwest of Mount Shasta. Its biggest town is Yreka, and has a small population, mostly ranchers, mostly Republican because Democrats like the Easy Life. Those mountains are anything but easy, summer or winter. Issues of water rights and fees for wildfire control (CalFire) have resulted in a general dislike of continuing as a part of California.
The county supervisors voted 4:1 in favor of secession, which is technically legal provided the state donating the land agrees to allow it. Since I-5 goes through there, they'll want to get more counties involved.
The North Coast is pretty battered by state laws that do nothing for them, and the interior North is hardly any better off. Cows only grow when there's sufficient pasture, and pasture comes from water. If there's drought, there's not enough pasture, not enough cows, not enough money. Poverty and desperation mix to form rebellion. Secession may only be a cry for help beyond the indifferent state government in Sacramento. It would be interesting if they and several other counties opted to finally form Cascadia. I doubt it will happen, but if it existed I would probably move there. The view is nice, and I kinda liked Ashland, though they need more jobs.
Secession is probably better than paying for
Governor Moonbeam's $25 billion dollar water tunnel or his
trillion $68 Billion dollar train to nowhere plus early retirement funds for several million crackheads in Oakland and LA. If only we weren't paying taxes to keep those crackheads fed, the economy might recover. Of course, if we stopped these multibillion dollar projects that only seem to benefit the construction contractors, we'd have more money for other projects. I suppose it is possible the delta tunnels will allow the salmon to recover, which could get their numbers back up. That would be a good thing. If the current route for the train to nowhere was scrapped and the original design, running along I-5 as an express that only stopped in LA and SF or San Jose... that would be better. These gerrymandered idiocies are not good for California. We really need more sanity in our world. A well run hotel gets more tourists and fewer complaints. California needs to stop being a slum and start being a well run hotel. Its what the tourists expect. And tourists have money.
Maybe if the state restored all those old passenger rail cars, and allowed the lines to run again, we'd get tourists hopping on and off the trains in various towns for a few hours, for a bike ride or picnic or day at the lake. Local tourists used to do family outings to places like Modesto or Merced, on the way to Yosemite, or the way back. Now those places are full of Spanish speaking thugs and junkies. Who stops there now? California needs to clean up its act. Stop being permissive to evil. Hammer it down. If it were responsible, Siskiyou county wouldn't be voting to leave. They'd ask for help and get it. Maybe if CalFire lowered its rates, since there's not a lot of brush to clean up there, ranchers wouldn't be so angry.
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