[Tzimisce]

The state of New York has petitioned to leave the Union.

Think about that while you’re reading this New York Magazine article.

[Atlas Sneezed]

The state of New York has petitioned to leave the Union.

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Get serious. A few people in that state have petitioned.

[lentulusgracchus]

http://www.examiner.com/article/multiple-states-petition-obama-to-secede-from-union-start-own-governments?cid=rss

Several of them have — Virginia and Tennessee are the only former Confederate States not petititioning, and Oklahoma and New Mexico, which had secessionist movements (the Five Civilized Nations in Oklahoma seceded as tribes), were still territories.

[Nepeta]

The state of New York has petitioned to leave the Union.

New York state is more than New York City.

I lived in the Rochester area in the 1970s, and signed a petition for secession from NYC, where all the tax dollars flowed.

Appalachia begins in the southern part of NY. Wayne County, on Lake Ontario, has some of the poorest people I've ever seen in this country. Back before cell phones, cars would slide off the roads in blizzards. It was not unheard of for people to DIE in their cars because they could not see a building 100 feet away in the snow. The "Big City" in western NY is Toronto.