Lincoln (proposed northwest state)
| State of Lincoln (proposed) | |||||
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| Capital: | Spokane | ||||
| Official language : | not named (de facto) English |
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| Surface: | 175246 km² | ||||
| Residents: | 1,897,348 (10.83 / km²) | ||||
| Time zone: | Pacific Standard Time ( UTC − 8 ) / Pacific Daylight Time ( UTC − 7 ) | ||||
| The highest point: | 3743 m ( Mount Adams on the Washington-Lincoln border) | ||||
| Deepest point: | 24 m Columbia River at White Salmon | ||||
Lincoln (abbreviated "Linc.") Is the name of various proposals for a newly created state in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. The name, chosen in honor of President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War , had already been proposed for the states of Wyoming and North Dakota . The proposed state lies within what is known as the inland-northwest region (which also includes western Montana). The residents should have been referred to as "Lincolnites". The 51st state would (hypothetically) rank 20th in terms of area size, 37th in terms of population and 42nd place in terms of population density. The proposed capital Spokane with its metropolitan area would have been the most populous city and region in the new state.
Lincoln in the northwest
Lincoln State was proposed to consist of the Idaho Panhandle and eastern Washington (i.e., Washington east of the main ridge of the Cascade Range ). The proposal first came from Idaho in 1865 , when the capital was moved from Lewiston to its present location in Boise in January 1865 in December 1864 ; Idaho would have lost much of its territory. The original Idaho Territory , made possible by a law signed by President Lincoln in March 1863, was declared by Governor William Wallace on July 4th, 1863 in Lewiston and included what is now Idaho and all of what is now Montana and Wyoming, making it larger in area than Texas did. Montana was declared a territory in May 1864 and the panhandle was specifically excluded to prevent Lewiston, which lies west of the continental divide along the main ridge of the Rockies and west of the Bitterroot Mountains , from remaining capital. The argument was that Lewiston is on the western border, separated from Washington only by the Snake River . Montana extends all the way to North Dakota. The proposal from 1865 envisaged making the Panhandle a separate state. This proposal was rejected, but another was made in 1901, then with the intention of uniting the Idaho Panhandle with East Washington to form Lincoln State. A third proposal was popularized in the late 1920s; the state of Lincoln should consist of east Washington, north Idaho and wet Montana (up to the continental divide). Washington last made proposals in 1996, 1999 and 2005. In Idaho there was a corresponding campaign for North Idaho, which started with the sale of T-shirts with the label "North Idaho - A State of Mind" (German for example "North Idaho - A State of Mind" or how the pun it wants, "a state of mind") was funded. In addition to "Lincoln", the names "Columbia" and "Eastern (or East) Washington" were proposed for the new state.
Lincoln would have been the 37th state in 1865, the 46th state in 1901, and the 49th state in the 1920s.
North Idaho
While the divide between west and east Washington is well known and documented, there is a similar dynamic in north Idaho in which residents often feel disconnected from the political center in Boise. The ten northernmost counties in the state are usually considered to be the Idaho Panhandle: Boundary , Bonner , Benewah , Clearwater , Idaho , Kootenai , Latah , Lewis , Nez Perce and Shoshone . These counties are separated from southern Idaho by the Salmon River , also known as the "River of No Return," and are unlike the rest of the state in the Pacific Time Zone .
Parallel drafts of a "State of Kootenai" (named after the small town of Kootenai, Idaho) were submitted, which refer to the union of the six northernmost counties of Idaho with the six westernmost counties of Montana. They would form a geographically, politically and ecologically uniform state with around 525,000 inhabitants, which would be ahead of other states such as Wyoming in the ranking.
There is also a founding movement for a state called "Liberty".
East Washington and East Oregon
Other concepts of a potential “State of Lincoln” have also been put forward, in particular a combination of East Washington and East Oregon. The people of eastern Oregon express the same frustration of being connected to Portland and the West of the Cascades region as the people of eastern Washington express about Seattle . The proposed union would create one of the largest states in the country, stretching across the entire area east of the main ridge of the Cascades to the Idaho border in the east.
proposals
Both the Idaho and Washington legislatures were faced with bills promoting secession and fragmentation. Idaho would not agree to this as long as the Panhandle generated more tax revenue per capita than the south. If this were combined with the proposed State of Jefferson , which partially overlapped with a proposed State of Lincoln from Washington and Oregon, an even larger state would have been created.
The inland northwest region would roughly correspond to the area that would include such a state of Lincoln. The largest city would be Spokane, which is currently the second largest city in Washington with a metropolitan area that is the third largest in the northwest (after Seattle and Portland).
A proposal from Spokane in 1907 resulted in a new state "Lincoln", which would be formed from East Washington, Northeast Oregon and North Idaho. The eastern borders of Oregon and Washington would have been shifted westward to longitude 120 degrees west and the eastern border of California would have continued northwards. Idaho's northern border would have moved south to 45 degrees north latitude and would have continued the northern border of Wyoming.
Alternative names for existing states
Wyoming
When the law that formed the Wyoming Territory in 1868 was first discussed in the Senate , an appendix was also proposed that would have changed its name to Lincoln Territory after the assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln. The new name was endorsed by the Senate Territory Committee, but a debate began that examined both the Lincoln and Wyoming names, with several members preferring local and Native American names. Many senators objected to naming a territory after a single man, conceding that the Washington Territory (named after George Washington in 1853 ) should remain the only exception. "Wyoming" was the primitive English transliteration of the Lenape Indian word for "great plains", which was felt to be descriptive of the country but also undesirable because of the great distance to its origin in Pennsylvania . The law eventually passed both Houses of Congress named "Wyoming Territory".
North Dakota
It was proposed to split the Dakota Territory into a northern and a southern half, while in 1880 accession to the United States was declared. The Republicans in the Senate proposed "Lincoln" for the northern half, regardless of objections from residents of the territory, which aroused violent opposition from the Democrats . Ultimately, the territory was recognized in 1889 as two states, North and South Dakota .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045216/53
- ^ Liberty State: Future of Liberty with Rep. Matt Shea . Retrieved June 18, 2018.
- ^ Spokane People Demand Brand New Western State . In: The Washington Times , April 22, 1907, p. 3.
- ^ To provide a temporary government for the Territory of Wyoming . P. 357. 40th Congress, 2nd Session. 1868.
- ^ A b The Congressional Globe: Senate, 40th Congress, 2nd Session , pp. 2792-2794.
- ↑ Urbanek, Mae. Wyoming Place Names . Missoula , Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1988.
- ↑ Louis Arthur Coolidge: An old-fashioned senator: Orville H. Platt, of Connecticut . GP Putnam's Sons, 1910, p. 140.
Coordinates: 48 ° N , 118 ° W