No passport for her!!!
Posted on 07/12/2013 9:59:02 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
Will North Colorado become America's 51st state? That's what some residents in the Centennial State are pushing for. Representatives from eight northern counties convened Monday, CBS Denver reports, to "begin mapping the boundaries for the new state they say will represent the interests of rural Colorado." The secession movement stems from "a growing urban-rural divide," with state lawmakers in Denver passing sweeping gun control legislation and calling for more renewable energy and less oil and gas production—a big part of northern Colorado's economy. “Northern and Northeastern Colorado and our voices are being ignored in the legislative process this year, and our very way of life is under attack,” Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway told Coloradoan.com.
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No passport for her!!!
“...it’s primarily Denver and Boulder that are screwing the rest of us.”
That is exactly right. The same can be said in most states—it is the urban locations that are socialist while the non-urban regions are American. In NYS, Long Island and everything north and west of Westchester County and the burroughs is an entirely different world. The only exceptions are the urban places like Albany, Syracuse, and Rochester. Same situation in Illinois and California. Wisconsin has Milwaukee and Madison then there is the normal rest of the state. And, Michigan...
The path to separations in the states may need to be urban/non urban rather than county/county or region/region.
Big City(s) cesspools control entire state’s politics and laws. This is the logical outcome, expect to see more of this.
Texas needs to expel Austin for sure, then San Antonio and parts of Houston and Dallas. Because that won’t happen, West Texas, the most conservative part of the state, should become a state.
Wait! What. Mike Church has been advocating Article V conventions for years and the Great One blasted him.
West North Dakota ?
Eastern edge of North South Carolina ?
It is supremely ironic that this is happening in Colorado, isn't it?
Maryland’s eastern shore is geographically, economically and culturally isolated from the rest of Maryland, which is totally controlled by liberals who have an ironclad grip on the state house. This peninsula is largely rural and conservative. It could thrive on its own and would quickly attract millions of disaffected Marylanders.
Good catch — I missed that!
Can Northern/Eastern California be far behind?
Big City(s) cesspools control entire state’s politics and laws.
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Well said. Cesspools of self-interested corruption and political thuggery.
Exactly, even viewed in a value-agnostic way, the rural counties are the ones more consistent with historical norms in Colorado and the "progressive" (progressive like cancer, not like progress) urban areas are the ones who are doing something new, so wouldn't THEY be the ones to have been involuntarily separated and needing a new name?
While I agree with the sentiments could this backfire? What if urban areas wanted to withdraw and form new states. Would a red state allow it? If you do you give two more senate seats and one rep to the dems.
Something to consider.
It would probably work like that here in AZ, but I think that nationwide, there are more places where the urban libs are wagging the conservative rurals than the other way around. Plus, even if it were break-even, it would still dilute the liberal schemes for DC and Puerto Rico statehood, should those succeed.
“To form a new state, approval would be needed from voters, the Colorado General Assembly and U.S. Congress.”
I think it’s a great idea but the above sentence tells us we can forget about it actually happening.
Large urban areas are the ruination of America.
Large urban areas are the ruination of America...Indeed!
First Northern Colorado then...
Southern California quickly seceeds, followed by Southern New Jersey, Northwestern Florida, Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon. The latter two then merge to form Cascadia.
Long ignored by Annapolis and Baltimore, Eastern Maryland joins with the lower two counties, Kent and Sussex, of Delaware. The upper county, New Castle, rejoins Pennsylvania. However this proves too much for the rest of Pennsylvania and it splits into three states, Pittsburghia and Scrantonia, while leaving a Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden ameoba of degeneracy and illiteracy to fail for itself.
Long Island then leaves New York State, which prompts everything north of Rockland County to go it alone, save for the People’s Republic of Ithaca, which remains an oblast of New York City.
Actually, if Denver, Boulder, and Aspen, would just disassociate from the state, we’d be fine.
Hey, north San Antonio is pretty conservative - let's keep it with the rest Texas, and get rid of the south side. The rest I'll agree with.,p. A refugee from the PRNJ who LOVES Texas and (most) Texans.
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