Dividing California into two states advisory vote, 1992

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Secession referendum, 1859.

I haven't got the data on me, but I can get it from the library if anyone's interested.

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perhaps if this had been pursued to its end Cali wouldn't be in such a mess right now.

Well, yes and no. SoCal would be completely screwed. They would have run out of water.

We wouldn't have droughts because of them, certainly.

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Secession referendum, 1859.

I haven't got the data on me, but I can get it from the library if anyone's interested.

Nobody cares?

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Secession referendum, 1859.

I haven't got the data on me, but I can get it from the library if anyone's interested.

Nobody cares?

Why is that one county so different? Where is it anyway?

It's San Luis Obispo, and historically is not that close to SoCal being part of the Central Coast. I don't know how relevant that is to the 1859 referendum.

Unfortunately, I haven't got much background information on this referendum, but it was over slavery, and San Luis Obispo's topography does not lend itself to a slave-based economy in the same way that the others do.

But the vote total in this referendum was suspiciously low; as I recall, Los Angeles County was the only one where the losing side got more than a few dozen votes.

EDIT:

San Luis Obispo County voting history:

1852	Scott
1856	Frémont
1860	Breckinridge
1864	Lincoln
1868	Grant
1872	Grant
1876	Tilden
1880	Garfield

1852 and 1856 were by rather large margins, which makes 1860 all the more interesting (though Breckinridge did not break 30%).

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A Google search for "California referendum 1859" reveals that this is the only page on the Internet that mentions the 1859 referendum. What does that say?