The proposals for western Maryland and western Virginia to join West Virginia is an East Coast equivalent of Greater Idaho, with inland portions of Oregon, Washington and far northern California joining Idaho. The liberal states will never cede the counties that wish to secede. How can Annapolis and Richmond push CRT, carbon taxes, vaccine mandates on conservative minded people if conservative counties secede for friendlier state governments?
I grew up in Howard County. It wasn’t always this way. (says every “old” person).