Posted on 07/08/2013 12:43:18 PM PDT by beaversmom
Officials with several Colorado counties interested in forming a 51st state scheduled a public meeting for Monday afternoon.
The meeting is being held at the Akron Fairgrounds at 551 East Second Street at 2 p.m. The public can attend the meeting, but will not have the opportunity to participate.
Weld County Commissioners told the Greeley Tribune they will also meet with leaders from counties in western Nebraska and Kansas, which have expressed interest in joining the effort.
Officials planned to consider how the boundaries of such a state would look and whether it's feasible, Weld County Commissioner Doug Rademacher told the Tribune.
When they announced their proposal earlier this month, Weld commissioners said they felt agriculture and oil and gas are under attack in the State Legislature, and the needs of rural Colorado counties are being ignored.
Rademacher told the Tribune if the proposal makes it to the November ballot, he expects voters to approve the creation of a new state by at least a 60 percent margin.
In spite of support for the idea, Rademacher said he doesn't expect it to actually happen.
Under guidelines in the U.S. Constitution, North Colorado would have to get the consent of the Colorado General Assembly and the U.S. Congress to move forward with forming its own state.
“This is interesting. If it gets traction, we’ll see California split up.”
Yep, and west Texas has long felt that it does not get the attention and resect it deserves from the Governors office and.Texas legislature. Ninety percent of Texas residents live within 100 miles of the I-35 corridor. Consequently, this leaves not so many people but a whole lot of oil and gas in west Texas. They could get by real good without the dilettante’s in Austin.....
Utah’s over on the other side of Colorado. Wyoming doesn’t have any population too spare, so it would be up to the Nebraska panhandle and Western Kansas to make up the deficit.
There’s a whole lotta nuthin’ out there...
Mayne just turn ther new colorado into a “doughnut state” and keep it named “Colorado” and make denver and Boulder into a new state called “Boulder State” otherwise already known as the “People’s Republic of Boulder”
Split up Cali? Oh noooooo... I am two blocks west on the wrong side of the Orange County Line...
“A congressional district represents a certain number of people. (approximately 700,000 people) Weld county has approximately 250,000 people and giving them two senators and a representative would give them far greater representation than the rest of the country.
Even if they could pull it off, it would lead to every liberal county in the country trying to do the same.”
Let them, once we get upwards of 100 states a very good case can then be made for a “re-partitioning” of the united states into three countries, each with their own ocean facing borders, Atlatic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico.
Then the heartland could truly be free from the tyranny of the coasts and the coasts would no longer have the flyover country to whine and bitch about.
District of Columbia 632,323
Vermont 626,011
Wyoming 576,412
...counties in western Nebraska and Kansas, which have expressed interest in joining the effort.
Offer 40 acres to conservative homesteaders and there might just be a huge influx of like minded people from the rest of the country.
Hey, if Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh can do it in Oregon and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Iowa?
District of Columbia 632,323
Vermont 626,011
Wyoming 576,412
All at least within sight of the goal.
Its not going to happen and I’d lay the deed to my house on it.
Probably not, but it is fun to raise the hackles of Gov. Chickenroper .... makes his look a bit like an effeminate SF escapee to Denver.
Ah, an Upstate NY and a NYC as two different states. Nice!
Form new states along or around the big rat cities, cut em off, tax the crap out of em for products going in/coming out, etc.
I’ll bet if you lobby the right people, you can end up on the proper side of the line. Either that, or ya gotta move... But it looks like it would be many years before ya even need to think about it.
Grew up in one of those bordering western Kansas counties. There just are not that many people out there! (Maybe if we start at Hays Kansas and go west)!
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