The secession of Southern California.

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In Southern California there was wide support for the Confedercy. There was some thoughts of them seceding from California and forming a Confederate state in Southern California. The U.S. Army invaded the area and the secession was not successful. Was there any real chance that the secessionist of Southern California could have been successful? Southern California was a long way from the nearest support that the Confedercy could supply. Still the U.S. Army did not have many resources to use to stop Southern California from becoming a new Confederate state.

In my opinion the only real chance for Southern California from becoming a Confederate state was if the Californians in the northern part of California refused to support an invasion of Southern California by federal forces. How much support there would have been in Northern California for allowing Southern California to secede if violence would have broken out is an open question. It is possible that if the federal government attempted to invade Southern California that Northern California would have rebelled and joined Southern California. One problem of Northern Californian support was that Southern California did not vote to secede and some citizens in Northern California could have seen the secession of Southern California as not fully legal.

Should have the secessionists of Southern California resisted the federal invasion? I can not say how successful the secessionists of Southern California would have been in resisting the federal invasion, the U.S. Army did not have many soldiers in the federal invasion force. Still one would have to research the military capabilities of the pro Southern militia forces in Southam California to resist the federal invasion.
 
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