Conservative group wants liberation for western Maryland

baltimoresun.com ^ | 9/10/2013 | Dan Rodricks

[RoosterRedux]

"The entire state is controlled basically by three jurisdictions," Strzelczyk said. "That's not representative government. ... We don't think this government can be fixed."

The solution? Form your own state.

I guess that's easier than a voter registration drive.

Strzelczyk's group believes the people of Western Maryland are fed up with Democratic dominance and they want Garrett, Allegany, Washington, Frederick and Carroll counties to break away and form a new state, perhaps called West Maryland.

According to a blog that he writes, Strzelczyk is "a constitutionalist concerned with the legitimate role of the federal government and the infringement of our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property." He is a software consultant, conservative activist and father of five children. He's 49 and lives in New Windsor, which is a lovely place in Carroll County. I don't know why anyone who lives in New Windsor would complain about anything, but Strzelczyk has a lot of gripes about life in Maryland.

He ran through his list for me, and they were familiar:

The Democrats rigged the 6th Congressional district with a big chunk of liberal Montgomery County to guarantee the election last fall of John Delaney, depriving Western Maryland voters of an 11th term of representation by the 86-year-old Roscoe Bartlett of Buckeystown.

The "flush tax," which helps pay for improvements to wastewater systems to protect the Chesapeake Bay.

Sales taxes.

Gasoline taxes.

The regulation of new housing and septic systems. That's part of the so-called "war against rural Maryland," with Democrats in Annapolis devilishly devising all kinds of limits on farms and the development of land.

[Oberon]

It’s where I’m from, and I’d gladly live there again should this come to pass.

[ConservativeDude]

and so it begins.

may take 100 years.

but it has begun.

[apillar]

Really the same thing is true even in liberal bastions like New York, Illinois and California. Huge swaths of conservative rural areas are held under the jackboot of a couple huge urban areas.

[Alter Kaker]

Very few places where Dems win rural areas — pretty much the only exceptions I can think of are Massachusetts, Vermont, the Iron Range of Minnesota, South Texas, the Navajo Reservation, New Hampshire and Maine kind-of and the black belt of the deep south.

[Farnsworth]

This is about the 3rd case of splitting off from a state.
It's an interesting idea and I can't say I disagree with them. If your in a stinking liberal state, you'll never get representation, conservatives are “disenfranchised” in many states.
If you look at the California election may of 2012, you would see that the major cities choose Obama to be president, not the rural parts. That state is indeed blue except where the concentrations of the dependency class reside.

[Rummyfan]

Strzelczyk's group believes the people of Western Maryland are fed up with Democratic dominance and they want Garrett, Allegany, Washington, Frederick and Carroll counties to break away and form a new state, perhaps called West Maryland.

Why not just join West Virginia?

The activists are right though: Prince Georges County, Baltimore County, and Baltimore City rule the state.

[Don Corleone]

I say,”Go for it!”

[Starboard]

“The entire state is controlled basically by three jurisdictions,” Strzelczyk said.
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Very true. They dominate state politics by virtue of their densely populated areas and extreme gerrymandering. They run all over the rest of the state and have no interest in “inclusiveness”, a principle liberals love to espouse.

Nearly everyone we know is leaving the state. And that even includes some liberals!

[Starboard]

Prince Georges County

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They can’t even rule themselves. The county is a financial mess and crime is totally out of control.

[Fiji Hill]

Very few places where Dems win rural areas — pretty much the only exceptions I can think of are Massachusetts, Vermont, the Iron Range of Minnesota, South Texas, the Navajo Reservation, New Hampshire and Maine kind-of and the black belt of the deep south.

You can add to that list Imperial County, Calif., which has been "blue" for many years, thanks to so many compadres.

[hal ogen]

I left maryland (aka THE Freak state) last year after a 30 year stint of "living" there. The state is hopelessly LIB/DIM/RINO. Hopelessly. Leave...that is the only option. Let maryland fester in its LIB/DIM/RINO delusions. Once you have escaped, your life will improve dramatically.

[jz638]

I don’t know if a lot of people realize this, but if you cut out Baltimore county, Montgomery county, and PG county, Maryland is a red state. The Eastern shore of Maryland also bears little resemblance to the Balt-DC beltway mindset and if there were any chance of a Western Maryland state, Eastern Maryland wouldn’t be far behind. It would be funny to see Martin O’malley run for president in 2016 against that backdrop.

[Darren McCarty]

There's precedent with West Virgnia. East Tennessee tried to split (from the Confederacy) as well at one time.

[RoosterRedux]

I think that is true about most states...cut out the major metro areas (and possibly the university towns) and what you are left with are solid common sense conservatives.

[Paine in the Neck]

This is happening everywhere. Huge cities controlling whole states. It even has important effects in the Federal gov’t as those same cities basically control the Senate. This is a major reason why direct popular election of Senators is a bad idea; it disenfranchises suburban and rural citizens to the benefit of Chicago, Baltimore, Denver, etc.

[Venturer]

I live in St. Mary’s County and we have had a bellyful of Democrats. Problem is we are being moved in on by the refugees from SE Washington DC who have moved down from PG to Charles County and are invading our Northern boundaries.

We tried hard to unload Steny Hoyer, but his black constituency in Prince Georges and Charles Counties beat us.

Looks like this year for Governor we will have a choice between two black candidates. Charles Lollar, Republican and Brown—O’Malley’s steppinfetchit puppet-—Democrat.

[Rapscallion]

The Democrat People’s Republic of Maryland. (DPRM)

[Apparatchik]

Prince Georges County ******** They can’t even rule themselves. The county is a financial mess and crime is totally out of control.

And Charles County to the south is being invaded from the north. I used to live there 10 years ago and thought about returning there to live, but saw how bad things have gotten and decided to move to Virginia.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!