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The territory that became the present state of California was acquired by the U.S. as a result of American victory in the Mexican–American War and subsequent 1848 Mexican Cession. After the war, a confrontation erupted between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of these acquired territories.
A viral post shared on X claims California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is purportedly considering seceding from the Union following President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 victory. Verdict: False ...
The list of county secession proposals in the United States includes proposed new counties to be formed from existing counties within a given state that have not yet been formed. For counties that want to secede from their current state and to join or create another, see List of U.S. state partition proposals .
A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential election. In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a ...
A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.
The latest effort to secede from California is growing in rural El Dorado County, which sits just east of Sacramento and has fewer than 200,000 residents. But experts say it's unlikely to take hold.
West Virginia was admitted to the U.S. as a separate state in 1863 when the Union-loyal Restored Government of Virginia broke from Virginia after Virginia joined the Confederate States of America in 1861, though most of the new state's counties had in fact supported secession. California has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide ...
This is not the first attempt to break up the state, with at least 220 documented attempts previously, according to the California State Library. County supervisors urged to secede from California ...