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Partition and secession in California

Index Partition and secession in California

California, the most populous state in the United States and third largest in area after Alaska and Texas, has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states since its admission to the United States in 1850, including at least 27 significant proposals in the first 150 years of statehood. [1]

105 relations: Admission to the Union, Alameda County, California, Alta California, American Civil War, Andrés Pico, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Bill Maze, Brexit, British Columbia, Butte County, California, Cal 3, California, California Constitutional Conventions, California Gold Rush, California gubernatorial recall election, California National Party, California State Assembly, California State Senate, Cascadia (independence movement), Central Valley (California), Coastal California, Colorado Territory, Colusa County, California, Compromise of 1850, Contra Costa County, California, Debra Bowen, Del Norte County, California, Dominican Order, Donald Trump, Ecotopia, Ernest Callenbach, Franciscans, Glenn County, California, Governor of California, Humboldt County, California, Idaho, Inland Empire, Interstate 5, Jefferson (proposed Pacific state), Jerry Brown, John B. Weller, Lassen County, California, List of counties in California, List of U.S. state partition proposals, Los Angeles County, California, Marin County, California, Mariposa County, California, Mendocino County, California, Merced County, California, ..., Mexican Cession, Mexican–American War, Mexico, Milton Latham, Missouri Compromise, Modoc County, California, Monterey County, California, Nevada, North Coast (California), Northern California, Op-ed, Orange County, California, Oregon, Parallel 36°30′ north, Partition and secession in New York, Plumas County, California, Porfirio Díaz, Republican Party (United States), Richard J. Dolwig, Ridge Route, San Benito County, California, San Diego County, California, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, San Luis Obispo County, California, San Mateo County, California, Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Clara County, California, Santa Cruz County, California, Secession, Secretary of State of California, Shasta County, California, Siskiyou County, California, Six Californias, Slave states and free states, Southern California, Stan Statham, Tehachapi Mountains, Tehama County, California, Tejon Pass, Territory of Colorado (California), Texas divisionism, The Californias, The Daily Telegraph, Tim Draper, Trinity County, California, United States, United States presidential election, 2016, Ventura County, California, Washington (state), Washington, D.C., Yes California, Yuba County, California, 120th meridian west, 36th parallel north. Expand index (55 more) »

Admission to the Union

The Admission to the Union Clause of the United States Constitution, oftentimes called the New States Clause, and found at Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1, authorizes the Congress to admit new states into the United States beyond the thirteen already in existence at the time the Constitution went into effect.

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Alameda County, California

Alameda County is a county in the state of California in the United States.

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Alta California

Alta California (Upper California), founded in 1769 by Gaspar de Portolà, was a polity of New Spain, and, after the Mexican War of Independence in 1822, a territory of Mexico.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Andrés Pico

Andrés Pico (November 18, 1810 – February 14, 1876) was a Californio who became a successful rancher, fought in the contested Battle of San Pascual during the Mexican-American War, and negotiated promises of post-war protections for Californios in the 1847 Treaty of Cahuenga.

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Baja California

Baja CaliforniaSometimes informally referred to as Baja California Norte (North Lower California) to distinguish it from both the Baja California Peninsula, of which it forms the northern half, and Baja California Sur, the adjacent state that covers the southern half of the peninsula.

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Baja California Sur

Baja California Sur, (South Lower California), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur (Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur), is the second-smallest Mexican state by population and the 31st admitted state of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Bill Maze

Everet William "Bill" Maze (born April 9, 1946) is an American politician from California and a member of the Republican Party.

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Brexit

Brexit is the impending withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Butte County, California

Butte County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Cal 3

Cal 3 (Proposition 9, officially the Division of California into Three States initiative) is a November 2018 state ballot initiative to split the U.S. state of California into three states.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Constitutional Conventions

The California Constitutional Conventions were two separate constitutional conventions that took place in California during the nineteenth century which led to the creation of the modern Constitution of California.

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California Gold Rush

The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

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California gubernatorial recall election

The 2003 California gubernatorial recall election was a special election permitted under California state law.

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California National Party

The California National Party (CNP) (Partido Nacional de California, PNC) is a political party in the state of California.

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California State Assembly

The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature.

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California State Senate

The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature.

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Cascadia (independence movement)

Cascadia is a bioregion and proposed country located within the western region of North America.

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Central Valley (California)

The Central Valley is a flat valley that dominates the geographical center of the U.S. state of California.

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Coastal California

Coastal California, also known as the California Coastline and the Golden Coast, refers to the coastal regions of the U.S. state of California.

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Colorado Territory

The Territory of Colorado was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 28, 1861, until August 1, 1876, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Colorado.

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Colusa County, California

Colusa County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Compromise of 1850

The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).

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Contra Costa County, California

Contra Costa County is a county in the state of California in the United States.

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Debra Bowen

Debra Lynn Bowen (born October 27, 1955), a member of the Democratic Party, was the Secretary of State of California from 2007 to 2015.

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Del Norte County, California

Del Norte County is a county at the far northwest corner of the U.S. state of California, along the Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Oregon border.

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum, postnominal abbreviation OP), also known as the Dominican Order, is a mendicant Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Dominic of Caleruega in France, approved by Pope Honorius III via the Papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017.

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Ecotopia

Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a seminal utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975.

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Ernest Callenbach

Ernest Callenbach (April 3, 1929 – April 16, 2012) was an American author, film critic, editor, and simple living adherent.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church, founded in 1209 by Saint Francis of Assisi.

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Glenn County, California

Glenn County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Governor of California

The Governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.

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Humboldt County, California

Humboldt County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Idaho

Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.

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Inland Empire

The Inland Empire (IE) is a metropolitan area and region in Southern California.

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Interstate 5

Interstate 5 (I-5) is the main Interstate Highway on the West Coast of the United States, running largely parallel to the Pacific coast of the continental U.S. from Mexico to Canada.

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Jefferson (proposed Pacific state)

The State of Jefferson is a proposed U.S. state that would span the contiguous, mostly rural area of southern Oregon and northern California, where several attempts to separate from Oregon and California, respectively, have taken place.

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Jerry Brown

Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American politician, author and lawyer serving as the 39th and current Governor of California since 2011, previously holding the position from 1975 to 1983, making him the state's longest-serving Governor.

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John B. Weller

John B. Weller (February 22, 1812August 17, 1875) was the fifth governor of California from January 8, 1858 to January 9, 1860 and a congressman from Ohio, U.S. senator from California, and minister to Mexico.

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Lassen County, California

Lassen County is a county in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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List of counties in California

The U.S. state of California is divided into 58 counties.

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List of U.S. state partition proposals

Since the establishment of the United States in 1776, numerous state partition proposals have been put forward that would partition an existing state (or states) in order that a particular region within might either join another state, or create a new state.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, is the most populous county in the United States, with more than 10 million inhabitants as of 2017.

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Marin County, California

Marin County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Mariposa County, California

Mariposa County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Mendocino County, California

Mendocino County is a county located on the north coast of the U.S. state of California.

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Merced County, California

Merced County, is a county located in the northern San Joaquin Valley section of the Central Valley, in the U.S. state of California.

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Mexican Cession

The Mexican Cession is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War.

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Mexican–American War

The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War in the United States and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Milton Latham

Milton Slocum Latham (May 23, 1827 – March 4, 1882) was an American politician, and served as the sixth governor of California and as a member of the federal U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.

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Missouri Compromise

The Missouri Compromise is the title generally attached to the legislation passed by the 16th United States Congress on May 9, 1820.

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Modoc County, California

Modoc County is a county in the far northeast corner of the U.S. state of California.

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Monterey County, California

Monterey County is a county located on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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North Coast (California)

The North Coast of California (also called the Redwood Empire or the Redwood Coast) is the region in Northern California that lies on the Pacific coast between San Francisco Bay and the Oregon border.

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Northern California

Northern California (colloquially known as NorCal or "The Northstate" for the northern interior counties north of Sacramento to the Oregon stateline) is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Op-ed

An op-ed (originally short for "opposite the editorial page" although often taken to stand for "opinion editorial") is a written prose piece typically published by a newspaper or magazine which expresses the opinion of a named author usually not affiliated with the publication's editorial board.

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Orange County, California

Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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Parallel 36°30′ north

The parallel 36°30′ north is a circle of latitude that is 36 and one-half degrees north of the equator of the Earth.

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Partition and secession in New York

There are or have been several movements regarding secession from the U.S. state of New York.

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Plumas County, California

Plumas County is a county in the Sierra Nevada of California, US.

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Porfirio Díaz

José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915) was a Mexican general and politician who served seven terms as President of Mexico, a total of three and a half decades, from 1876 to 1880 and from 1884 to 1911.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Richard J. Dolwig

Richard J. Dolwig served in the California legislature for the 27th District.

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Ridge Route

The Ridge Route, officially the Castaic-Tejon Route, was a two-lane highway between Los Angeles and Kern counties, California.

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San Benito County, California

San Benito County is a county located in the Coast Range Mountains of the U.S. state of California.

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San Diego County, California

San Diego County is a county in the southwestern corner of the state of California, in the United States.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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San Luis Obispo County, California

San Luis Obispo County, officially the County of San Luis Obispo, is a county located in California.

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San Mateo County, California

San Mateo County (Spanish for "Saint Matthew") is a county located in the U.S. state of California.

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Santa Barbara County, California

Santa Barbara County, California, officially the County of Santa Barbara, is a county located in the southern region of the U.S. state of California.

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Santa Clara County, California

Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is California's 6th most populous county, with a population was 1,781,642, as of the 2010 census.

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Santa Cruz County, California

Santa Cruz County, California, officially the County of Santa Cruz, is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California.

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Secession

Secession (derived from the Latin term secessio) is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity, but also from any organization, union or military alliance.

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Secretary of State of California

The Secretary of State of California is the chief clerk of the U.S. State of California, overseeing a department of 500 people.

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Shasta County, California

Shasta County, officially the County of Shasta, is a county in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Siskiyou County, California

Siskiyou County is a county in the northernmost part of the U.S. state of California.

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Six Californias

Six Californias was a proposed initiative to split the U.S. state of California into six states.

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Slave states and free states

In the history of the United States, a slave state was a U.S. state in which the practice of slavery was legal, and a free state was one in which slavery was prohibited or being legally phased out.

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Southern California

Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost counties.

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Stan Statham

Stan Statham is a former American broadcaster and politician from California.

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Tehachapi Mountains

The Tehachapi Mountains are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in the Western United States.

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Tehama County, California

Tehama County is a county located in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Tejon Pass

The Tejon Pass (pronounced "tay-HONE, tuh-HONE, or TAY-hone), previously known as Portezuelo de Cortes, Portezuela de Castac, and Fort Tejon Pass, is a mountain pass between the southwest end of the Tehachapi Mountains and northeastern San Emigdio Mountains, linking Southern California north to the Central Valley.

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Territory of Colorado (California)

Territory of Colorado (California) was an 1859-60 attempt by Californios and pro-slavery Southerners to separate the southern counties of California into a separate Territory of the United States.

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Texas divisionism

Texas divisionism is a mainly historical movement that advocates the division of the U.S. state of Texas into as many as five states, as statutorily permitted by a provision included in the resolution admitting the former Republic of Texas into the Union in 1845.

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The Californias

The Californias (Spanish: Las Californias), occasionally known as the Three Californias or Two Californias, are a region of North America, shared between Mexico and the United States of America, consisting of the U.S. state of California and the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Tim Draper

Timothy Cook Draper (born June 11, 1958) is an American venture capital investor, and in 1985, the founder of the firm that would become Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ).

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Trinity County, California

Trinity County is a county in the northwestern part of the state of California.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States presidential election, 2016

The United States presidential election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

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Ventura County, California

Ventura County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Yes California

The Yes California Independence Campaign is an American political action committee, founded by Louis J. Marinelli, that promotes the secession of the state of California from the United States.

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Yuba County, California

Yuba County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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120th meridian west

The meridian 120° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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36th parallel north

The 36th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 36 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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Redirects here:

Calexit, California independence, New California, Partition of California, Secession in California, South California (Proposed U.S. State), South California (proposed U.S. state), South California Proposed State.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_and_secession_in_California

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