secession issues

"A GOP lawmaker in California says he has a solution to the state's massive budget woes: He wants 13 conservative-leaning counties to secede and form a new state called "South California." The secession push is the brainchild of Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone, a Republican who tells...

I propose the secession of New York City, Long Island, and the neighboring Rockland, Westchester, and Putnam County..from the State of New York and creating the new State of Hudson. Year after year, we hear about how New York City and surrounding areas never get their fair share from Albany...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/liberals-southern-arizona-seek-form-state-130257516.html "A long-simmering movement by liberal stalwarts in southern Arizona to break away from the rest of the largely conservative state is at a boiling point as secession backers press to bring their longshot...

I have been fomenting a cessesion from the state of Arizona. I feel that because the vast majority of Arizona's population reside in maricopa county (the greater phoenix area) those of us in the outlying counties are not being represented to a satisfactory degree. Our state legislators are...