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The key difference (to me, anyway) is that the WV counties were doing something that the US Congress/Lincoln desired and approved of, and New California/Jefferson isn't (I assume).
I think it is fine to pursue objectives via the law on paper but we have to be smart that those laws are ultimately worth the paper they're written on. Mao was evil but he unfortunately understood the correct source of political power.