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Not likely, but the movement is gathering steam.
Secession drive gathers steam in rural Colorado - Los Angeles Times
Two doors down, Mayor Butch White agreed. "Legislation that's passed is never in our favor," he said inside his dusky tavern, the Pour House. "I don't know if they think we're slow up here for living the way we do. But lots of people are sick and tired of that."
So tired that on Nov. 5, residents of 11 counties across rural Colorado will vote on a proposal to secede from the state and, advocates hope, take the first step toward throwing off new gun controls, green energy requirements and other laws imposed by Democrats in charge in Denver, the state capital 75 miles away.
It is unlikely, even the most ardent supporters concede, that the nation's flag makers will be stitching on a 51st star any time soon. The hurdles to secession, which include the consent of Congress, are high enough that no state has successfully broken off since West Virginia in 1863 — though a great many movements have tried.
Today, secession efforts are afoot in western Maryland and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Earlier this month, supervisors in Northern California's Siskiyou County endorsed a decades-old dream of merging with other rural counties and parts of southern Oregon to form the state of Jefferson.
In Colorado, local lawmakers have taken their disgruntlement a step further by putting the question to voters. And even if secession is an exceedingly long shot, backers say that at least the election has gotten the attention of people, including Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, and forced them to acknowledge the resentment simmering among rural residents.
Secession drive gathers steam in rural Colorado - Los Angeles Times
Two doors down, Mayor Butch White agreed. "Legislation that's passed is never in our favor," he said inside his dusky tavern, the Pour House. "I don't know if they think we're slow up here for living the way we do. But lots of people are sick and tired of that."
So tired that on Nov. 5, residents of 11 counties across rural Colorado will vote on a proposal to secede from the state and, advocates hope, take the first step toward throwing off new gun controls, green energy requirements and other laws imposed by Democrats in charge in Denver, the state capital 75 miles away.
It is unlikely, even the most ardent supporters concede, that the nation's flag makers will be stitching on a 51st star any time soon. The hurdles to secession, which include the consent of Congress, are high enough that no state has successfully broken off since West Virginia in 1863 — though a great many movements have tried.
Today, secession efforts are afoot in western Maryland and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Earlier this month, supervisors in Northern California's Siskiyou County endorsed a decades-old dream of merging with other rural counties and parts of southern Oregon to form the state of Jefferson.
In Colorado, local lawmakers have taken their disgruntlement a step further by putting the question to voters. And even if secession is an exceedingly long shot, backers say that at least the election has gotten the attention of people, including Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, and forced them to acknowledge the resentment simmering among rural residents.