Secession talks emerge in one Northern California county

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The Sacramento Bee / Jun 14, 2023

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A new proposal, put forth by a resident and supported by at least one former county leader, would have El Dorado County secede from California and become its own state.

The idea is being spearheaded by county resident Sharon Durst, who spoke alongside former county Supervisor Ray Nutting at a community meeting last month, the Mountain Democrat newspaper reported.

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“El Dorado relies mostly on its income from tourism and on the unhappy people from Sacramento, the Bay Area and Los Angeles buying residential or second homes away from the crime-ridden metropolitan areas,” Durst wrote.

“The people of El Dorado County want their former livelihoods restored and their rural way of life respected. Even without its geographical major economic drivers, the people of the county are economically resilient and self-sustaining.”

MORE: https://napavalleyregister.com/eedition/page-a4/page_356953c7-846b-51a9-8237-9bc9500f7c0e.html

From the link: El Dorado County would only be able to depart California with California’s permission and an OK from Capitol Hil ... both of which are highly unlikely.

While the proposal is laughable, it may be cause for concern if copycat actions emerge in other states. According to the link, El Dorado would become the least populous U.S. state with just over 191,000 residents as of the 2020 Census, less than half of Wyoming’s 577,000. But they'd (likely) add two republican senators to the Senate and one republican to the House.