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.
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."