{"pk":46630,"title":"The War of Words: Confederate Rhetoric in the Healdsburg Squatter War","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Although California was relatively unaffected by the destruction of the  Civil War, California's new statehood and Gold Rush brought thousands of  migrants from the war-torn areas. These migrants brought with them  their ideologies--and sometimes their slaves. In Northern California's  Sonoma County, the battle of civil war ideologies was fought over land  rights. Southern Squatters settled in Sonoma County, voted for the  pro-slavery Democratic Party, sang Dixie, and after the start of the  Civil War, fought off sheriffs and residents trying to remove them and  their politics. In Northern California, the rhetoric of the Civil War  was played out in the \"Healdsburg Squatter War.\" Opportunistic  landowners used the Civil War as a political, moral, and ideological  weapon to eject Southern squatters from profitable Sonoma County lands","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7n11c5v3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"Bret","last_name":"Davis","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Berkeley","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2015-02-27T07:19:07+01:00","date_accepted":"2015-02-27T07:19:07+01:00","date_published":"2015-03-16T18:56:31+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cjpp/article/46630/galley/35316/download/"}]}