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  2. Partition and secession in California - Wikipedia

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    The territory that became the present state of California was acquired by the U.S. as a result of American victory in the Mexican–American War and subsequent 1848 Mexican Cession. After the war, a confrontation erupted between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of these acquired territories.

  3. California Statehood Act - Wikipedia

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    An Act for the Admission of the State of California into the Union was the formal title given to the Congressional legislation passed by the 31st Congress, and signed by President Millard Fillmore on September 9, 1850, which admitted California as the 31st state to the Union.

  4. List of U.S. county secession proposals - Wikipedia

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    The list of county secession proposals in the United States includes proposed new counties to be formed from existing counties within a given state that have not yet been formed. For counties that want to secede from their current state and to join or create another, see List of U.S. state partition proposals .

  5. Six Californias - Wikipedia

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    West Virginia was admitted to the U.S. as a separate state in 1863 when the Union-loyal Restored Government of Virginia broke from Virginia after Virginia joined the Confederate States of America in 1861, though most of the new state's counties had in fact supported secession. California has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide ...

  6. Rural counties in California, Illinois push to secede from ...

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    A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.

  7. County supervisors urged to secede from California and form ...

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  8. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may love trashing California, but that doesn’t mean he’s prepared to let the state secede from the union. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says California ‘has potential ...

  9. Jefferson (proposed Pacific state) - Wikipedia

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    The population of the 21 California counties was 1,747,626 as of the 2010 U.S. Census, which would be 39th most populous state in the Union. In 2013, venture capitalist Tim Draper launched Six Californias, a measure to split California into six consecutive parts, including Jefferson. [40]