ExNavyPilot
2nd Lieutenant
- Joined
- Nov 9, 2010
- Location
- Chesapeake, VA
Thanks! Let me clarify:
It was Southern California, formerly Alta California, that wanted to secede. This part of the state was mainly populated by Californios who were not happy with the results of the Mexican War and by a lot of Southerners who found the south of the state suitable for agriculture and supported slavery. That was against the California constitution, as California had been admitted as a free state. They did vote to secede from both the state of California and the Union - they would split the state into North and South, with the southern part named Colorado. (Colorado was still part of the Utah Territory at that time.) The Angelenos raised a Confederate unit - the Los Angeles Rifles - and there was a California Native Cavalry, which was entirely Hispanic. Confederate sympathy was so strong in Southern California that the governor stationed three companies there to be sure it remained in the Union.
Here is a concise overview of the matter from a SoCal history blog:
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_f...california-tried-to-split-from-the-north.html
So would a present-day citizen of Los Angeles be considered a true southerner?