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.
Do they become their own state or country?
I visited the Eastern Shore in May to eat crab cakes. They sold T Shirts saying.... This is not Maryland. This is the Eastern Shore.
I bought a Gadsen bumper sticker “Don’t Tread on Me”
The rattlesnake was replaced with a menacing blue crab
Succession?
Of course, this will never happen. The counties that want out are the ones that provide most of the tax revenue to feed the rest. (I can only speak for Maryland, but I would bet it’s the same for Colorado.)
Hope this works..i
There is no “amicable”.
It will all come down to one survivor.
Heard chickenlooper on the radio yesterday addressing a group up in NW Colorado. (Trying to mend fences) he said “...I want you to feel like you’re being represented...) I thought it was significant in that he didn’t say he wanted to make sure their interests were represented, only that they feel like it. I think a bit of the truth slipped out there...
The disgust and revulsion of the communist Demonic Party and its vile, parasitic “taker” class seem to be pushing more and more people to action. This increasing tension seems to remind me of the U.S. around 1860 or so....
Colorado had a vote this month about the succession, and it failed....DAMMIT!
Yeah, Weld County voted it down, so it’s pretty much done. And I agree - DAMMIT!
While I agree that parts of states have the right to secede and become new states I think from a pragmatic perspective they would be better off simply becoming parts of different states. For example I wonder if the recent vote in Colorado would have gone differently if the question were “shall county X seek to be annexed by Wyoming” rather than to seek separate statehood. While getting Colorado and Wyoming to agree to that would be challenging, it would be less challenging than getting Congress to agree to another state.
Weld County locus of Greely, suffers from a concentration of communist population in Greeley. Greeley, a cesspool of illegals and communist college people. God have mercy.
Yep. Welcome to Greality, where the Somalis do the jobs the Mexicans don’t want to do.
Don’t group Calvert, St. Mary’s and Ann Arundel Counties with the others; heck, most of Baltimore County can stay in Maryland as well (we’d need it for contiguity), and it would be a solidly Republican state.
Succession = successful secession (?)
They would be then one of the 50 contiguous states.
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