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Diogo L., Portugal : "Peace will come to North America when the United States are fragmentized. Why should Al Qaeda attack Nevada if Nevada does not mess around in Pakistan and Yemen. "
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High Desert County, California, to be formed largely from northern Los Angeles County, California as well as portions of San Bernardino County, California and Kern County, California. Proposed by late state senator Pete Knight (cf.) in 2002.
A writer to the Los Angeles Times in 1997 indicated a sentiment from south Orange County, California residents that they would seek to secede from the county if it insisted on building a new airport on the former site of Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. The airport plan was eventually discarded in favor of the Orange County Great Park plan.
Prior to the formation of Orange County, California, residents of Anaheim, California in 1870 pushed a bill in the state assembly for the creation of an Anaheim County, California. The proposal had the support of San Francisco.
In 2002, residents of the city of Corona proposed Corona County to include the western edge of Riverside County. In the late 1980s, some residents of the Coachella Valley of Riverside County failed to create a new county: Cahuilla County.
In Northern California, three proposed county plans failed in the 1990s: Redwood County (western parts of Mendocino and Sonoma counties), Tahoe County (eastern parts of Nevada, Placer and El Dorado counties) and Central Valley County (of western Merced and Fresno counties).
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Bancroft Croose
59, West 44th Sreet,
New York. 10099