Around Texas anyway one hears plenty of idiotic blathering about tea-bagging (wow, seriously, those republicans really needed just fifteen seconds on Urban Dictionary to choose a new name for their movement, right?) and secession that the fact there's a different and older secessionist movement going on in a different area of North America might get obscured.
And I'm not talking about Quebec, which is getting closer and closer to dissolving their ties with Canada.
But Canada is involved.
This is one of the many flags of the prospective Republic of Cascadia, named for the backbone of the region, the Cascade Mountain Range. The most conservative outlines of Cascadia's borders always seem to include Oregon, Washington State, and British Columbia, and more generous outlines contain northern Californian counties as well as portions of Idaho, Montana, Yukon and southern Alaska.
I believe, from what I've read, that this secessionist movement is far less vitriolic and partisan than some of the others. The folks who support it feel that society from Eureka to Vancouver to Missoula is closer to itself that anything really American or Canadian, even if the area is populated by ostensibly Americans and Canadians. Supporters also like to mention that with both Boeing and Microsoft nestled deep in Cascadia, and with the flourishing high-tech industry, the mineral deposits, and the timber, Cascadia would be a world player. If the area was it's own country, it'd have the world's 20th largest economy (California alone would have the fifth largest).
Tehama County was included on one map, so I felt that I could say I had a connection to (at least) Southern Cascadia ("It's not northern California, it southern Cascadia!").
In any case, if the Republic of Cascadia were successful in secession (never happen), it could rank as one of the most beautiful countries on earth.
so true... it would be a very pretty place to be... this is very interesting....
ReplyDeleteGlad you are back posting... gotta love the tea-baggers... don't you...