I've been doing some searches on the forums and cannot find one timeline involving an independent California Republic that is well-done and thought out. I would think someone would have created such a timeline by now here. Does anyone else know of a timeline created here that features an independent California, preferably one created following a revolution against Mexico in the mid-1800s and that follows a republican form of government?
If anyone desires to discuss the idea, please feel free to post in this thread.
And let me just put a post-script here and say that, having spent my teenage years in California and considering myself a Californian, I believe there is something really unique about the state, the people, and the culture that makes it seem like it could be a country separate from the United States. I haven't noticed this in the other states I've lived in for more than a year: Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina. I'd love to see someone do a really polished job on an independent California alternate history and explore what it could have been if it had been more removed from the American sphere of influence. I think it would have been a country unlike any other in the world.