Jack of Harts

Jefferson, Lincoln, and Franklin have all been States that people have tried to create or formed and then let fade away over the centuries of American history. There were plans to make both Jefferson and Lincoln out of Texas for a time, and there was an operational Jefferson Territory in what is now Colorado for a few years back in the 1800s. There have additionally been numerous movements to create a State of Jefferson out of the Northern California and Southern Oregon counties since the 1940s. They had their own Jefferson Public Radio network by the 1980s, and a 1990s referendum in favor of the idea easily passed in 31 counties. Some 21 California counties had actually sent official proclamations to the California government informing the State of their intentions by 2013. That made it one of the most organized secession movements of the early Twenty First century. Though most people considered it more a vanity project than something that could really happen. The California government would simply never support it. But then the Second Great Depression came along and changed everything.