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A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential campaign. 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 ...
Proposed state or autonomous region: Confederate States of America or Southern United States or Dixie or Dixieland. Advocacy groups: League of the South, [82] [83] [84] other neo-Confederate and non-confederate southern separatist groups. State of Deseret. Deseret [85] Ethnic group: Mormons; Proposed state or autonomous region: Deseret
Political organisations: Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People, Yellow Ribbon. Militant organisations: Atesh, Popular Resistance of Ukraine. Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic (Annexed by Russia in 2022) People: Ukrainians, Pro-Ukrainian Russians in Ukraine.
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.
There is no consensus on the definition of political secession despite many political theories on the subject. [2]According to the 2017 book Secession and Security, by political scientist Ahsan Butt, states respond violently to secessionist movements if the potential state poses a greater threat than the would-be secessionist movement. [4]
Politics portal. v. t. e. Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, regional, governmental, or gender separation from the larger group. As with secession, separatism conventionally refers to full political separation. Groups simply seeking greater autonomy are usually not considered separatists. [1]
Texas secession movements. Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas Independence movement or Texit, [1][2] refers to both the secession of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state.
Separatist movements of India. Secession in India typically refers to state secession, which is the withdrawal of one or more states from the Republic of India. Whereas, some have wanted a separate state, union territory or an autonomous administrative division within India. Many separatist movements exist with thousands of members, however ...