[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!