Posted on 02/15/2025 8:04:41 PM PST by airdalechief
Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston has announced a legislative proposal to incorporate 33 Illinois counties that have expressed a desire to secede from their state.
This initiative comes after these counties, frustrated with the political dominance of Chicago and Cook County, voted in favor of exploring separation.
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For many years we in Upstate NY have wanted to split NY into two states, one being New York City and a few counties immediately north of it, and the other being the rest of the state.
We are so freakin' tired of NYC being this huge monetary and political drain on the rest of the state. It's quite likely that the new state of NYC would collapse under its own incompetence, "That's a shame". The new state of UpstateNY would be slightly right-of-center politically and we could get rid of all these stupid leftist regulations and laws.
But I dream on....
This may be a great angle to pursue. I would retire and move to Salamanca or Cuba if it was part of Pennsylvania. No joke. I hate that downstate NY automatically makes the NY house Democratic. They don’t speak for me and my duck hunting statesmen.
Yep, exactly.
Ironically, I live in Ithaca, arguably the most loony-liberal small city east of the Rockies (I keep my mouth shut in public). So if my dream came true and NYC was dropped off the rest of the state, Ithaca would remain an isolated leftist enclave (Motto: "10 Square Miles Surrounded By Reality"). So not much would change locally, but the state would be able to drop the stupid gun control and lower the taxes, those two things alone would be a blessing.
I want to have breakfast with you. We can both wear our red MAGA hats. Trumansburgh has a lovely diner on the main drag. Delicious omlettes and a bloody Mary? I haven’t met a live FReeper in ages. Since the Mayor probably. Qué bolá aseré?
I’m a DuPage resident. Unfortunately, this once-red county is turning blue with all of the wealthy leftists moving in, sick of the crime in the city. It’s close enough that the commute is doable, and it’s incredibly safe.
My family purchased here in 1982, and the land alone is worth five times the original purchase price. We’re trying to figure out where to go, because Illinois is going the way of Detroit.
If those counties manage to secede, I may seek refuge.
I don’t have a map in front of me, but I’m thinking that if all 33 counties went to Indiana, Springfield would be isolated from Chicago. The dems might be able to make a state running along I-57 from Springfield to the St. Louis suburbs, and there could be another state surrounding Chicago.
Lord, I can’t go back there...
I don't have a MAGA hat, though I've got a couple of great political t-shirts from LibertarianCountry.com. Nearly everyone I know locally is a libtard so I generally don't flaunt my politics. I don't like stupid arguments.
There are at least a few FReepers in the general area. By "the Mayor" do you mean Mark Finkelstein (FR governsleastgovernsbest)? And I think Chode lives somewhere nearby, maybe West Hill area?
Anyway, thanks again and if the opportunity arises I will take you up on your offer of sharing breakfast. I love omelettes but will pass on the Bloody Mary, these days I can't imbibe without severe repercussions, sigh. But I'll toast with whatever is at hand, to the great good fortune that came our way in the last election, and to the hopes for the recovery and success of our Beloved Nation.
Cheers!
I grew up in Clay County, during the days of Republican governors like Big Jim Thompson. I hate what the Cook County machine and crooks like Madigan have done to my former state.
Agree
How long will it take for them to arrest Pritzker?
Maybe Trump will figure out an offer they can’t refuse.
Marion Co Illinois town of Centralia
It’ll never happen. The smart thing to do would be to move the state capital to Chicago. Make the counties in and around Cook County the new state of Illinios, and let the rest of the state secede to make its own new state.
I’m in Winnebago County, darnit.
I wonder how many of the Illinois county’s will agree to change their names, as several of the names already exist in Indiana: Jasper Co (where I live), Brown Co, Wayne Co, Marion Co, Clinton Co, and several others.
My dad grew up in Chicongo, once he told me that I would never survive a walk through his old neighborhood. His parents had a summer home out in Lake county, and they moved there when he retired (he was a cabinet maker), the handwriting (or graffiti) was on the wall, and he got out when the getting was good. I was sort of hoping Lake County was on the list.
But yeah, I hope this happens. Chicago has always been a pit of corruption, and Prickster needs the tax money from the rest of Illinois to survive.
Good luck to those decent people who live in rural Illinois!
Ratburger made sure the tourist voters were allowed to vote so the rats could get control of the Senate.
Wyoming actually has a Crook County, named for General George Crook. It votes about 90% Republican at least in Presidential elections.
Centralia, where my dad was born
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