wolf_brother
Banned
This is something that I don't think has ever been discussed before. In 1859, Andrés Pico, a Californio hero of San Pasqual and then-state Senator and prosperous ranchero who owned thousands of acres of land in the south of the state, proposed a resolution to divide the state. The reasons he gave were generally those that even modern California state secessionists use; the state was too large to properly manage, and southern Californios were overtaxed and under-represented. The Pico Act proposed to divide the state at the 36th parallel north, creating the 'Territory of Colorado.' On 25 March 1860 the Assembly passed the bill, it was approved by California Senate on 14 April, and then-governor John B. Weller signed it on 19 April. Then, as per the Assembly committee's recommendation, to make the bill even more democratic it was put to a referendum, to which Californians approved by some 75%.
However, the US Congress ignored the act as the Crisis of Southern Succession was just then taking off, and it was all-but forgot about after the Civil War. So in any scenario involving a late avoidance of the Civil War, or one that at least puts it off to a later date, the Act isn't ignored and forgotten. What happens next?
However, the US Congress ignored the act as the Crisis of Southern Succession was just then taking off, and it was all-but forgot about after the Civil War. So in any scenario involving a late avoidance of the Civil War, or one that at least puts it off to a later date, the Act isn't ignored and forgotten. What happens next?