Did you forget about West Virginia? They split from Virginia. The trick is the state legislature has to approve the split and so does the US congress. As the article says it is difficult but not impossible.
That is the reason some CA counties have never split off, to many dems oppose the move. I would love to have a state composed of the Northeastern counties of CA, they are mostly Red. I wouldn't want a straight N/S split because you would have Sacramento and the coastal region included and they are as blue as the sky. Orange county would also be nice to have.
Did you forget about West Virginia? They split from Virginia. The trick is the state legislature has to approve the split and so does the US congress.
They made an exception to form WV.
LOL. No, I wasn’t going to CH in order to demonstrate that it was possible in the United States.
I was responding to Carryokie’s idea: Making the Denver/Boulder area its own city state (as it Base-Stadt) and have the remainder of Colorado as its own state (as is Basel-Land).