One popular proposed flag for Cascadia. Cascadia is a proposed name for the independent sovereign state that would be formed by the union of the Canadian province of British Columbia and the states of Washington and Oregon (and sometimes all or parts of Idaho and Northern California) in the United States, were they ever to successfully secede from their respective federal governments in Ottawa and Washington D.C..[1] The boundaries of this Cascadia would incorporate those of the existing province and states.[1] Image File history File links Flag_of_Cascadia. ...
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Official language(s) (none)[1] Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area Ranked 9th - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²) - Width 260 miles (420 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 2. ...
Official language(s) English [1] Capital Boise Largest city Boise Largest metro area Boise metropolitan area Area Ranked 14th - Total 83,642 sq mi (216,632 km²) - Width 305 miles (491 km) - Length 479 miles (771 km) - % water 0. ...
Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. ...
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Cascadia is home to more than 15 million people and boasts an economy that generates more than $450 billion worth of goods and services annually, which would place Cascadia in the top 20 economies of the world.[1]
History
After Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark into the Pacific Northwest in 1803, Jefferson envisioned the establishment of an independent nation in the Western of the North American continent which he dubbed the "Republic of the Pacific".[citation needed] Jefferson's original idea has since been embraced by a number of different groups with generally similar aims.[2] Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 N.S.–4 July 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–09), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. ...
The Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-1806) was the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back. ...
The Pacific Northwest from space The Pacific Northwest, abbreviated PNW, or PacNW is a region in the northwest of North America. ...
Elements among the region's population sought to secede from the United States and form their own country from the very beginning of Oregon's statehood.[2] While the Southern states broke away to form the Confederacy, some Oregonians saw it as a perfect opportunity to do the same and give new life to Jefferson's original idea, by trying to establish a country under Jefferson's name: the "Republic of the Pacific" The American government launched a successful propaganda attack to destroy the movement by trying to associate the Pacific movement with a group called the Knights of the Golden Circle, which was a pro-Confederate, pro-slavery organization.[2] The U.S. Southern states or The South, known during the American Civil War era as Dixie, is a distinctive region of the United States with its own unique historical perspective, customs, musical styles, and cuisine. ...
Motto Deo Vindice (Latin: Under God, Our Vindicator) Anthem (none official) God Save the South (unofficial) The Bonnie Blue Flag (unofficial) Dixie (unofficial) Capital Montgomery, Alabama (until May 29, 1861) Richmond, Virginia (May 29, 1861–April 2, 1865) Danville, Virginia (from April 3, 1865) Language(s) English (de facto) Religion...
Official language(s) (none)[1] Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area Ranked 9th - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²) - Width 260 miles (420 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 2. ...
The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was a secret society originally founded to promote Southern interests and prepare the way for annexation of a golden circle of territories in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean which would be included into the United States as southern or slave states. ...
At the same time, other movements inside of Cascadia, such as the Klamath, Trinity, and Jackson movements, all sought to wrench certain areas of Cascadia free from U.S. control.[2] These too failed, largely by being put down through various uses of force.[2]
In the 1930s, the State of Jefferson movement came into being and is, to date, the best known of such movements in the region.[2] The movement was created to draw attention to the area by proposing that Southern Oregon and Northern California form a separate state.[3] As this is historically a depressed area, many locals placed the blame on the governments of Salem and Sacramento.[2] For that reason, a flag bearing two X's and a gold pan was adopted. The two X's represented the so-called "double crosses" from Sacramento and Salem.[2] The State of Jefferson, as proposed by Gilbert Gable in 1941. ...
Nickname: Location in Marion and Polk Counties, state of Oregon Coordinates: , County Founded 1842 Government - Mayor Janet Taylor Area - City 120. ...
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In 1956, groups from Cave Junction, Oregon and Dunsmuir, California threatened to tear Southern Oregon and Northern California from their respective state rulers to form the State of Shasta.[2] Several of the organizers involved took it one step further and threatened the federal government with armed resistance unless certain demands were met.[2] Cave Junction, incorporated in 1948, is a city in Josephine County, Oregon, United States. ...
Dunsmuir is a city located in Siskiyou County, California. ...
In recent years, a more organized movement calling for the re-unification of the original Oregon Country, which included the area of the modern day southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, into a single entity for the purpose of gaining independence from both the United States and Canada has come into being under the name of the Evergreen Revolution.[2] Supporters of the Evergreen Revolution hope to one day achieve the independence of Cascadia through peaceful means.[2] Landscape in Oregon Country, by Charles Marion Russell Map of Oregon Country Oregon Country was a region of western North America that originally consisted of the land north of 42°N latitude, south of 54°40N latitude, and west of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. ...
Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour Without Sunset (diminishment)) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo - Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 36 - Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area Ranked 5th - Total 944,735...
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Official language(s) (none)[1] Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area Ranked 9th - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²) - Width 260 miles (420 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 2. ...
Official language(s) English [1] Capital Boise Largest city Boise Largest metro area Boise metropolitan area Area Ranked 14th - Total 83,642 sq mi (216,632 km²) - Width 305 miles (491 km) - Length 479 miles (771 km) - % water 0. ...
Today, the primary group actively pursuing secession is the Cascadian Independence Project,[2] though it is not alone.
Boundaries
The boundary often proposed for an independent Cascadia. Some groups have sought to extend the interpretation of "Cascadia" to embrace parts of Northern California, Idaho and Alaska, while others are more closely aligned with such related concepts as the State of Jefferson, State of Trinity, State of Jackson, State of Klamath, State of Shasta and Pacifica.[2] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. ...
Official language(s) English [1] Capital Boise Largest city Boise Largest metro area Boise metropolitan area Area Ranked 14th - Total 83,642 sq mi (216,632 km²) - Width 305 miles (491 km) - Length 479 miles (771 km) - % water 0. ...
Official language(s) None[1] Spoken language(s) English 85. ...
The State of Jefferson, as proposed by Gilbert Gable in 1941. ...
A further delineation of the proposed Cascadian boundaries would necessarily include the complete watershed of the Columbia river,[citation needed] therefore naturally including the territories of what is now Idaho, western Montana, and part of Wyoming, Utah, and very northern Nevada. Some argue that the inclusion of the Columbia watershed is vital to the integrity of Cascadia and the health of its ecosystem.[citation needed] The Columbia River (French: fleuve Columbia) is a river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. ...
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Motivation Political motivations for the secession and autonomy movements deal mostly with perceived shared Cascadian political culture, values, language dialect, history and interests, with which the eastern federal governments are accused of ignoring and being out of touch.[2] These connections go back to the Oregon Territory, and further to the Oregon Country, the land most commonly associated with Cascadia were united as a single political unit, though split between two countries.[1] The Oregon Territory is the name applied both to the unorganized Oregon Country claimed by both the United States and Britain, as well as to the organized U.S. territory formed from it that existed between 1848 and 1859. ...
Landscape in Oregon Country, by Charles Marion Russell Map of Oregon Country Oregon Country was a region of western North America that originally consisted of the land north of 42°N latitude, south of 54°40N latitude, and west of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. ...
The region is already served by several cooperative organizations and interstate or international agencies, especially in forestry and fishery management and emergency preparedness – the whole region being prone to earthquakes (see Cascadia subduction zone). These organizations are thought by some to be precursors of a bioregional democracy, perhaps along the 'Republic' lines.[2] A decidous beech forest in Slovenia. ...
A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing. ...
Emergency operations or Emergency preparedness is a set of doctrines to prepare civil society to cope with natural or man-made disasters. ...
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of stored energy in the Earths crust that creates seismic waves. ...
Structure of the Cascadia subduction zone Area of the Cascadia subduction zone The Cascadia subduction zone is a very long sloping fault that stretches from northern Vancouver Island to northern California. ...
Bioregional democracy (or the Bioregional State) is a set of electoral reforms designed to force the political process in a democracy to better represent concerns about the economy, the body, and environmental concerns (e. ...
Pop culture Two novels by Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia (1975) and Ecotopia Emerging (1981), are fictional portrayals of the secession of the region from the United States. Callenbach's novels include Washington, Oregon, and the northern half of California in the new country (with the dividing line between northern and southern California drawn roughly through Santa Barbara and Bakersfield). Seriatim was a short-lived magazine published in El Cerrito, California in the late 1970s which also promoted the secession of the region along the lines portrayed by Callenbach. Image File history File links A make your own bumper sticker promoting Cascadian Independence and the Evergreen Revolution. ...
Image File history File links A make your own bumper sticker promoting Cascadian Independence and the Evergreen Revolution. ...
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Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is the title of a seminal book by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. ...
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Callenbachs book does not come without flaws, but it was a fun read, with many practical ideas about constructing an ecologically friendly world. ...
Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ...
Nickname: Location in Santa Barbara County and the state of California Coordinates: , County Government - Mayor Marty Blum Area - City 111. ...
Nickname: Location of Bakersfield, California Coordinates: , Country United States State California County Kern County Founded 1869 Government - Mayor Harvey Hall Area - City 131 sq mi (339. ...
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Fish Brewing Company is a microbrewery in Olympia, Washington. ...
Coordinates: , County Incorporated January 28, 1859 Government - Mayor Mark Foutch Area - City 48. ...
The Northwest Territorial Imperative was an idea popularized within white supremacist and white separatist groups in the United States in the 1980s, in which adherents to these groups were encouraged to relocate to a five-state region of the Pacific Northwest, including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. ...
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References - ^ a b c d What is Cascadia? Cascadian Independence Project. Retrieved 11 June 2007.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p History. Cascadian Independence Project. Retrieved 11 June 2007.
- ^ A Jefferson State of Mind. VIA Magazine Online. Retrieved 09 June 2007
- ^ Fish Brewing Co. of Olympia, Washington. Retrieved 09 June 2007.
Coordinates: , County Incorporated January 28, 1859 Government - Mayor Mark Foutch Area - City 48. ...
See also The Oregon Country/Columbia District Disputed Area is the main area of dispute, although the whole region was disputed The Oregon boundary dispute (often called the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American claims to the Oregon Country, a region of northwestern North America known also...
The Alaska Boundary Dispute was a territorial dispute between the United States of America and Canada (then a British Dominion with its foreign affairs controlled from London), and at a subnational level between the territory of Alaska on the U.S. side and British Columbia and the Yukon on the...
The Alaskan Independence Party is a political party in the U.S. state of Alaska. ...
State of Lincoln The state of Lincoln is one of several proposed states of the United States of America(see 51st state). ...
The State of Jefferson, as proposed by Gilbert Gable in 1941. ...
External links - Cascadian Independence Project - Homepage for the Cascadian Independence Project
- The Cascadia Institute promotes consciousness of a bioregion extending along the coast from northern California up to northern British Coumbia and extending east into parts of Idaho and Alberta.
- Legality of Secession from the American Secession Project.
- Cascadia A wikiproject related to the bioregion and its culture.
- Cascadian English Cascadians discuss their own regional dialect, and Chinook Jargon, Cascadia's original trade language.
- AltaColumbia A comprehensive list of Cascadian autonomy and secessionist movements and groups.
- Cascadia Related Links A list of websites related, both directly and indirectly, to Cascadia.
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