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A Study Of The Proposals To Divide The State Of California From 1860 To 1952, Roberta Blakley Mcdow
A Study Of The Proposals To Divide The State Of California From 1860 To 1952, Roberta Blakley Mcdow
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The California of today is a union of complexities. It is a geographic giant composed of startling climatic and topographic variations. It is an economic elasticity satisfying the differing demands of agriculture, industry,and commerce. It is a social syncretism uniting a vast assortment of living patterns. With all of these diversities, California is a single, sovereign state.
Within the state, however, there are two obvious sections: Northern and Southern California.1 They are separated, theoretically, by the Tehachapi mountain range, which runs east and west, on a line with the city of Santa Barbara. So pronounced is this sectionalism that …