This will certainly fuel MEChA, ETA, Taiwan, Kurds, islamic sharia law, etc. Thanks Slick, Jorge, et al.
Self determination for goups of people is an essential part of freedom. The Western World should embrace it. We have nothing to fear from free democratic peoples.
It is the oppressive Communistic, and their allied States which face dis-integration.
Self determination is the route to destruction of the hegemony of Russia and China, and the redrawing of the post Colonial African and other maps alomg tribal and ethnic lines.
Tis a pity that the USA itself prevents secession of States from the Union. It is itself a form of oppressive Federal Imperialism. I say this as a friend of the USA.
Point of information. Did the original Charters for each State have anything to say about joining the Union?