Posted on 11/27/2013 4:34:48 AM PST by big'ol_freeper
Could we soon have 52 states? The succession movements in Colorado and Maryland are at full speed. Citizens in Alleghany, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett and Washington counties don’t feel that their interests are being represented in Annapolis any longer. Now they are looking to split off from the rest of the state to form Western Maryland. This effort is being called: A New State initiative.
Scott Strzelczyk, leader of the Western Maryland initiative puts it bluntly, “people are fed up with the liberal majority and want an “amicable divorce.”
The five counties make up about 11% of the entire state and lean heavily Republican.
Meanwhile, a similar effort is underway in rural Colorado where citizens in 8 counties are weighing the idea to break away to form Northern Colorado in reaction to gun control and a push for expanded renewable energy measures from the state legislature in Denver.
“The people of rural Colorado are mad, and they have the right to be,” said U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, who represents Yuma county in northern Colorado. “The Governor and his Democrat colleagues in the statehouse have assaulted our way of life, and I don’t blame these people one bit for feeling attacked and underrepresented by the leaders of our state.”
The U.S. Constitution allows for regions to split apart to form new states with the approval of the state legislature and Congress, but odds are it won’t happen anytime soon. The last time a region split away to form a new state was in the case of West Virginia; about 150 years ago.
Didn’t the Colorado effort fizzle because fewer than half the counties that held the referendum voted for the split?
United we stand, divided we fall. All going to the left's plan, though I have a hard time faulting anyone for wanting to split off and create a new government that will, hopefully, just leave everyone alone to live their lives, and not force them to support those who refuse to support themselves.
I’ve got family in Easton, I’ll see if they can snag me one of those bumper stickers!
If at first you secede, try try again!
Maybe by the time he is out of office, 0bama will have his 57 states!
Not sure what this will do. Unless they’re talking about being independent nations, they’ll be just another state for a predatory federal government to have its way with.
It’s just their way of showing Obama what the underside of the bus looks like.
Exactly right and why wouldn't Wyoming take parts of NW Colorado?
People are desperate to get away from the nanny fascist in big government. The control freaks are suffocating America.
I think the bigger issue would be getting CO to agree to losing the counties in question.
Not sure separation is a viable answer.
Yes, it will help for a while, but eventually, the same liberal mindsets they are separating from will encroach on them again.
If the separation mode becomes prevalent, a century from now, city-states will be controlled by libs and fly-over country will be controlled by more conservative types. Most of the political power structure resides, even now, in the cities, not in fly-over country.
It would seem that the more conservative types are giving up more than they would be gaining. ‘We can’t beat you in the elections, so we’ll just leave.’ The trouble is, especially if those who leave manage to create wealth, libs will find ways to get their share — if not on the state levels, then by way of the Federal level.
I only wish my county(ST. Mary’s) could join the secession, but we have too many Gimmedats I between us.
“No taxation without representation!”
I thought that Colorado voted this down in November election. I live in Maryland and hope this happens, but can’t see how they survive financially (the new state).
Far northern California too.
Make those idiots live with what they've created.
Baltimore City, not county. West side could go though.
11% of the population of Maryland would be about the same as the population of the entire state in 1850. It won’t happen because the state government won’t give up the tax revenues it gets from those counties.
Would love to see King Co. and Seattle leave Washington State.
Thanks, Reynolds v. Sims!
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
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