Proposed new state in northern Colorado gains traction

Fox News ^ | 07/27/2013

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A proposal backed by several Colorado counties to form a new state called North Colorado is getting public support.

More than four dozen people showed up Thursday at the first public meeting to discuss a proposal to form a 51st state. Nearly all of them said they support secession. The Greeley Tribune reports people from Weld, Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Washington, Yuma and Kit Carson counties are included in the discussion.

[SeekAndFind]

Let's say they successfully secede and form a new state, how many members of the Senate will we now have? 102?

[driftdiver]

seems like it would be 102

[SeekAndFind]

Well, I am not sure if their success will be a good precedent.

Imagine parts of California or New York seceding and forming their own state ( Long Island has a serious study group looking into it).

The Senate is going to grow and grow in number ( as if paying for their salaries and staff isn’t enough for tax payers )...

[Standing Wolf]

Speaking strictly as a Coloradan: I can certainly understand these counties' desire to absent themselves from the rest of the state; I believe, however, much of the aforesaid "rest of the state" would like to join them, which is to say: kick out the handful of metropolitan Denver counties.

Denver seems determined to make itself the San Francisco of the Rocky Mountains. Fine. It's time to kick it the [fill in the blank] out of Colorado!

Mysteriously—unless not the least bit mysteriously—I have a hunch lots of Californians, Oregonians, Washingtonians, Missourians, Illinoisans, New Yorkers, and various others feel the same way. Altogether too many big cities have inflicted altogether too much misery upon states they happen to be in.

[varmintman]

I can’t believe this idea hasn’t occurred to people in other states. The same situation exists in Pa., Md., NY., Vermont, and several other states, i.e. that you only have two or three counties which the dems own, while the rest of the states are perfectly normal.

[Chode]

i'd LOVE to live in WEST New York!!!

[SeekAndFind]

RE: i’d LOVE to live in WEST New York!!!

That looks like the part of the state that BADLY WANTS FRACKING for natural gas for the Marcelus Shale ( Neighboring PA is already doing that ) but CAN’T because Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been studying the issue to death.

[MondoQueen]

You know, I think you’re right! I live in a suburb of Chicago which is in a very conservative county, but Chicago runs the state. I’d go for secession.

[Graewoulf]

PING!

[DIRTYSECRET]

Jefferson

[DIRTYSECRET]

I think we could redivide the country into 50 states=100 senators. Question: How many ‘states in New England?

[laplata]

Thank you for the ping, Graewoulf!

[Graewoulf]

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[jmbelk]

If this truly did happen, how many other states would want to do the same?
How many history books would we have to change?
What other Countries have done this, because they were not at war?

[Inyo-Mono]

Mysteriously—unless not the least bit mysteriously—I have a hunch lots of Californians, Oregonians, Washingtonians, Missourians, Illinoisans, New Yorkers, and various others feel the same way. Altogether too many big cities have inflicted altogether too much misery upon states they happen to be in.

Yes. In my part of north eastern California we feel the same way. The county I live in was once thought to be part of Nevada territory until the survey of 1864. We all wish we were part of Nevada. The Libs that moved here from the East Coast have ruined this state.

[Zman]

Article IV Section. 3.

New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State;

Also, no CO senator will willingly allow for this and agree to diminish their power; if threatened, the vote buying window would be opened wide.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Question: How many ‘states in New England?

Two.

One, if NH doesn't get it's $h!+ together.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: What other Countries have done this, because they were not at war?

The Czech Republic and Slovakia split up amicably.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Northern California and southern Oregon tried in the early forties.

In October 1941, the mayor of Port Orford, Oregon, Gilbert Gable, announced that the Oregon counties of Curry, Josephine, Jackson, and Klamath should join with the California

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named Jefferson. [4]

On November 27, 1941, a group of young men gained national media attention when, brandishing hunting rifles for dramatic effect, they stopped traffic on U.S. Route 99 south of Yreka, and handed out copies of a Proclamation of Independence, stating that the state of Jefferson was in “patriotic rebellion against the States of California and Oregon” and would continue to “secede every Thursday until further notice.” [5]

The secession movement came to an abrupt end, though not before John C. Childs of Yreka was inaugurated as the governor of the State of Jefferson. [6]

The first blow was the death of Mayor Gable on December 2, followed by the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7. Secessionists focused their efforts on the war effort, which crippled the movement. Coincidentally, the “state of Jefferson” was one of the few places in the continental USA to be the subject of an attack during World War II, when Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita dropped bombs on the Oregon Coast near[

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_(proposed_Pacific_state)

[SeekAndFind]

Also, Singapore split from Malaysia in 1965.