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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 in order to gain statehood. This region on the Pacific Coast is the most famous of several that have sought to adopt the name of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. Thomas Jefferson sent the Lewis and Clark expedition into the Pacific Northwest in 1803, and envisioned the establishment of an independent nation in the western portion of North America which he dubbed the "Republic of the Pacific", hence the association of his name with regional autonomy. The independence movement (rather than statehood) is instead known as Cascadia. The name "Jefferson" has also been used for other proposed states: the name was proposed in the 19th century for Jefferson Territory (roughly modern Colorado), as well as in 1915 in a bill in the Texas legislature for a proposed state that would be created from the Texas Panhandle region.〔http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/mqd01〕 If the proposal were ever approved, the new state's capital city would have to be determined by a constitutional convention. Yreka was named the provisional capital in the original 1941 proposal,〔Peter Laufer, '' The Elusive State of Jefferson: A Journey Through the 51st State''. TwoDot, 2013. ISBN 978-0762788361.〕 although Port Orford had also been up for consideration.〔 Some supporters of the more recent revival have also identified Redding as a potential capital,〔 even though Redding is included in some, but not all, versions of the proposal and its own city council voted in 2013 to reject participation in the movement.〔("Redding City Council rejects "State of Jefferson" proposal" ). KRCR-TV, October 2, 2013.〕 ==20th century== In October 1941, the mayor of Port Orford, Oregon, Gilbert Gable, said that the Oregon counties of Curry, Josephine, Jackson, and Klamath should join with the California counties of Del Norte, Siskiyou, and Modoc to form a new state, later named Jefferson. On November 27, 1941, a group of young men gained national media attention when, brandishing hunting rifles for dramatic effect, they stopped traffic on U.S. Route 99 south of Yreka, the county seat of Siskiyou County, and handed out copies of a Proclamation of Independence, stating that the state of Jefferson was in "patriotic rebellion against the States of California and Oregon" and would continue to "secede every Thursday until further notice." The state split movement ended quickly, though not before John C. Childs of Yreka was inaugurated as the governor of the State of Jefferson. The first blow was the death of Mayor Gables on December 2, followed by the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7. Those in favor of splitting the state focused their efforts on the war effort, which crippled the movement. Coincidentally, the "state of Jefferson" was one of the few places in the continental USA to be the subject of an attack during World War II, when Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita dropped bombs on the Oregon Coast near Brookings on September 9, 1942. In 1992, State Assemblyman Stan Statham place an advisory vote in 31 counties asking if the state should be split into two. All of the proposed Jefferson counties voted in favor of the split〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Gary and Deborah Aufdenspring )〕 (except Humboldt County which did not have the issue on the ballot.) Based on these results, Statham introduced legislation in California in an attempt to split the state, but the bill died in committee. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jefferson (proposed Pacific state)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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