North California’s El Dorado County considering forming its own state: reportBy Matthew Sedacca
June 17, 2023
A Northern California activist wants her county to leave the Sunshine state and go independent.
El Dorado County, located just east of Sacramento and bounded by the border between California and Nevada, encompasses just under 1,800 square miles and has a population of about 191,000 residents, according to the 2020 Census.
At a community meeting earlier this month, resident Sharon Durst put forth her proposal for El Dorado to become the nation’s 51st state, which she dubbed, the “Republic for El Dorado State.”
Former county Supervisor Ray Nutting backed the idea, the Sacramento Bee reported.
Durst also laid out her case in a 7,000-word Substack newsletter, where she wrote that “El Dorado relies mostly on its income from tourism and on the unhappy people from Sacramento, the Bay Area and Los Angeles buying residential or second homes away from the crime-ridden metropolitan areas.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/06/17/north-californias-el-dorado-county-considering-forming-its-own-state-report/
