A new proposal would have a county in northern California secede and become its own state, with the local activist behind the effort calling for residents to have their way of life restored and respected.
El Dorado County, which is located just east of the state capitol of Sacramento and nestled between California and Nevada, is about 200 square miles larger than Rhode Island and has just over 191,000 residents as of the 2020 Census.Â
County resident Sharon Durst is spearheading the secession campaign with the support of former county supervisor Ray Nutting, the Sacramento Bee reported this week.
Durst published a more-than-7,000-word post on the newsletter platform Substack last month outlining the case for secession, arguing that other parts of California are encroaching on her county’s way of life.
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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,” wrote Durst. “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.”
Durst honed in especially on the issue of crime, which has been surging in parts of California over the past few years.Â
“It’s not just the population size, it’s the burdensome, prolific domestic LAWS, and CRIME,” she wrote [emphasis hers]. “As previously stated, tyrants need voluminous laws to maintain their power and control, but the laws in California are not for controlling crime and criminals, they are mostly domestic laws to control the people.”
The new state proposed by Durst would be known as the Republic for El Dorado State. The Substack post opens with sentences similar to those in the Declaration of Independence…
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