Jefferson

The State of Jefferson has its root going back to the early 1900’s.  In those days, logging, mining, and fishing sustained most of the communities throughout Northern California and Southern Oregon.  As the East started to industrialized, the West remained natural resource based.  The road systems we enjoy today are nothing like the dirt roads of yesteryear.   As trade was common and necessary between the states, winter hampered most travel.  Communities throughout the region demanded that their respective states remedy the winter snows, but limited resources caused little resolve.  As such, a number of counties decide to form their own state, called the State of Jefferson.   As the rift widened, locals took control of border roads and fought with authorities.  The Second World War came along and patriotism outweighed uprising, simmered secession.   Today, the idea of a state called “Jefferson” is left in the hands of historians and a few interest groups.   The (NR) Jefferson map took into account the original counties of Jefferson, then added a few more in California based on Presidential voting patterns.  With the current state of California going the way of socialism and bankruptcy, the State of Jefferson could rise from the ashes once again.