BrikoX@lemmy.zip to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 6 months agoPro-Trump Counties Vote to Secede from Illinois, Form New Red Statewww.ibtimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: chapotraphouse@hexbear.netnews@lemmy.world
arrow-up167arrow-down1external-linkPro-Trump Counties Vote to Secede from Illinois, Form New Red Statewww.ibtimes.comBrikoX@lemmy.zip to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square22linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: chapotraphouse@hexbear.netnews@lemmy.world
minus-squareArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·6 months agoThere’s precedent for it, with West Virginia. The problem is that the way that the Senate works makes what could have been a local issue extremely national.
minus-squareChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·6 months agoJust make them like Puerto Rico where they are neither a state nor a sovereign nation.
minus-squareStern@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 months agoThat precedent comes with a big civil war shaped asterik.
There’s precedent for it, with West Virginia. The problem is that the way that the Senate works makes what could have been a local issue extremely national.
Just make them like Puerto Rico where they are neither a state nor a sovereign nation.
That precedent comes with a big civil war shaped asterik.