The Rubes of Jefferson

When you drive in the vicinity of the California and Oregon borders, you might turn on the radio and listen to NPR, which calls itself Jefferson Public Radio. That is because, for the last 70 years or so, there has been a movement in the empty rural parts of Northern California and Southern Oregon to secede from California and Oregon and form a new state called Jefferson. The state will represent the sorts of folk who are new to teeth brushing and resent it as a form of government interference by Michelle Obama. 

I believe that the NPR station took on the Jefferson cause with a smile, but in fact the Siskiyou  County Board of Supervisors recently voted 4-1 to secede from California and form a State of Jefferson. The new state will hold 44,000 of California's 38 million current residents. The main occupations will be mental health care and electing two teabaggers to the United States Senate. Luckily no one has given these rubes the permission slips needed to secede, so guess what?  We can forget about it.