Posted on 09/12/2013 7:30:59 AM PDT by detective
I just returned from a pleasant trip to the mountains and rivers of Garrett County to the dismaying news that a group of conservative Republicans want Garrett and four other Maryland counties to break away and form the 51st state so they can live happily ever after. I spoke Monday to the leader of what's called the Western Maryland Initiative. Scott Strzelczyk is his name. He doesn't like the word "secession." He's talking about something different — the formation of a new state out of five counties. The U.S. Constitution allows regions to separate with approval from the state legislature and Congress.
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How ‘bout liberation for the entire USA!
How was it put in the civil war? Too small for a state and too large for an insane asylum.
how do i contact these people?
I want to start the same movement for Western New York
If these were libs, they might have a chance :)
It's plain that the Baltimore Sun columnist thinks it's stupid, which is all the more recommendation.
The New states of Northern California, Northern Colorado, and Western Maryland should be bargaining chips for DC statehood.
This is not at all unusual. Part of Colorado wishes to do the same thing. And the state of "Jefferson"--encompassing northern California and southern Oregon--was almost formed close to 75 years ago, until the bombing of Pearl Harbor focused our national attention elsewhere, and the effort petered out.
During the Civil War, my own state of Tennessee almost became divided in this manner: East Tennessee (which was largely pro-union) nearly divided from the rest of the state (which seceded, and joined the Confederacy). It never quite happened; but, to this day, East Tennessee seems like an entirely different world from middle Tennessee or west Tennessee...
I used to reside in Frederick. Before I left in 2007, I noticed more transplants from Montgomery Co settling in areas around Urban a. Funny thing is, they were fleeing the messes they made of Montgomery and PG counties with their politics.
I spent a number of years in western Maryland. Western Maryland is a very different place, culturally, socially, economically, politically, than the rest of Maryland.
Many people in western Maryland feel they have much more in common with neighboring West Virginia than they do with the rest of Maryland.
Liberals tend to sneer at ideas of regions of states wanting to break off and form their own states.
I don’t have any strong opinions on this subject. But, it occurs to me that government closest to the people is most responsive. And the constitution provides for creating new states out of existing states. Let the process proceed, is my thinking, if that is the desire of the people in these places.
I’m a displaced redneck from north of Thurmont, myself. The sooner they can make idiot Montgomery County liberals a tiny minority the better, as far as I’m concerned.
Western NY - you’ll get nothing but encouragement and support moral and otherwise from your southern conservative friends.
Join West Va. They might like a little increase in their tax base after Obama castrated the coal industry.
Maybe we’ll get to Obama’s 57 states because of him.
If you polled them I think you’d find that the entire eastern shore of Maryland wants to leave the state.
Maybe so; but it'll be an almost impossible fight, given the majority Democrat governing bodies who must sign off on the plan.
From the Washington Post:
Western Maryland secessionists seek to sever ties with the liberal Free State
"Secession is a difficult political fight to win. The U.S. Constitution allows regions to separate only with the approval of the state legislature and Congress, and over the years there have been hundreds of quixotic and unsuccessful efforts, according to Michael J. Trinklein, the author of Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States that Never Made It."
The Adirondacks is No-Man`s Land for the Cuomunists.
Does that mean they would want to secede from NYstate or stay with the state?
no sure what you mean
Just wait until 2014 when the SHTF here.
I thinks Howard County and some Eastern Counties might go along. The City of Baltimore and PG County are a huge burden on the rest of the state.
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