[brownsfan]

“Can a portion of a State secede from the state and become a state?”

It was wartime, but West Virginia seceded from Virginia.

[Drill Thrawl]

If the state and feds agree with it.

[Nat Turner]

“Can a portion of a State secede from the state and become a state?”

It was wartime, but West Virginia seceded from Virginia.

Well if one Civil War gave us WV the second will give us South California...