[r_barton]

This is sort of like West Virginia breaking from Virginia and staying with the United States instead of the Confederate States.

[Travis McGee]

Maybe sorta, but the geography is all different.

A wall works across the skinny part of the island.

[odawg]

“This is sort of like West Virginia breaking from Virginia and staying with the United States instead of the Confederate States.”

Federal troops were the ones that organized that result, not Virginians.

[OldNewYork]

Good analogy. I think there was a clause in the last referendum where Britain’s recent successful vote to exit qualifies as enough of a material change in circumstances justifying Scotland to have another referendum.