Quote Originally Posted by Horst Nordfink
Not being a yank, what is Jefferson state?
Jefferson is a mostly rural area of Southern Oregon and Northern California in the United States. Several times during the 19th and 20th centuries there have been attempts to establish the area as a separate state. This region on the Pacific Coast is the most famous of several that have sought to adopt the name of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States; the name was proposed in the 19th century for Jefferson Territory, as well as in 1915 in a bill in the Texas legislature for a proposed state that would be created from the Texas Panhandle region.

According to wikipedia.. I'm not a yank myself so this might be completely wrong . :p