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  2. List of state partition proposals in the United States

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    1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.

  3. List of U.S. county secession proposals - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Secession in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Rural counties in California, Illinois push to secede from ...

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    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.

  6. Tired of your state politics? These residents are looking to ...

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    A 2023 study by a Colby College professor found that more than 25% of Americans support some sort of secession by states, and nearly 25% percent agreed it "makes sense to split the country up."

  7. Texas Nationalist Movement wants secession vote during 2024 ...

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    AUSTIN — An organization called the Texas Nationalist Movement has submitted more than 139,000 petition signatures to the state Republican Party seeking to place a referendum on the March ...

  8. Partition and secession in California - Wikipedia

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    The California State Senate voted on June 4, 1965, to divide California into two states, with the Tehachapi Mountains as the boundary. Sponsored by State Senator Richard J. Dolwig (R-San Mateo), the resolution proposed to separate the seven southern counties, with a majority of the state's population, from the 51 other counties, and passed 27 ...

  9. Greater Idaho movement - Wikipedia

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    As of July 2024, thirteen counties in Oregon (shown in red) had approved ballot measures in favor of Greater Idaho.. The Greater Idaho movement is an effort in the United States for counties east of the Oregon Cascades [1] to secede from the state of Oregon and join Idaho.