By the time the San Ysidro Peacekeepers and Judges restored order in San Diego, Tijuana, and the other nearby cities, they had informally become the southern edge of the new Republic of California. They official joined as San Ysidro, San[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The San Ysidro Judges helped restore order in San Diego, Tijuana, and their closest neighboring cities during the Second Great Depression. They accompanied the San Ysidro Peacekeepers on their patrols, and judged and sentenced Drug Lord smugglers and fighters to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When San Diego, Tijuana, and the other major cities fell into chaos during the Second Great Depression, their surviving leaders declared martial law in hopes of restoring order. The local police were simply not enough, though. Their ranks had been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Republic of California did not include all of San Diego, Tijuana, or the other major cities around them upon original formation. Those cities had fallen into civil war as the Mexican Drug Lords took advantage of the Second Great[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Republic of California was born in rebellion and anarchy during the Second Great Depression. The big cities were drowning beneath the weight of homelessness, rampant diseases, and drugs wars that shattered the minds and bodies of their residents. City[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The transformation of Old Texas was greatly different than what happened in California. Yes, there were big city bastions like the tri-border El Paso-Juarez-Las Cruces and the more central Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex that were worlds onto their own, but Texas[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“You should have been raised by a loving mother and father, not some scientists in a lab.” The enduring lesson of The Boys. I would like to say that Amazon Prime has created a fresh, new world for their recent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The dissolution of Old California was an unfriendly slide. California had been suffering from decades of one party rule that emptied the State treasuries and dumped most of their water reserves straight into the ocean. Crops were dying in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Large States like Old California and Old Texas ran into a number of interesting problems during the Second Great Depression. They were host to some of the largest cities in America on the one hand, and some of the largest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The new Second Great Depression-era Constitution allowed local areas to formally leave the States they were part of to form their own States. They would need Federal recognition, which generally came swiftly if they had a large enough population base.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…