the 34th 51st state?
tommyWe told you about the south Florida governments clamoring to cut the state in two to form a 51st state, but we did not realize that this happens all the time, all over the country.
Oh, we know that in talks of adding states, Puerto Rico sometimes is mentioned, as is the District of Columbia. But the talk of states splitting is apparently all the rage.
We were surprised to hear that just this year, an Athens columnist suggested splitting Georgia in two in order to solve the Atlanta-Alabama-Georgia-Florida water wars, which was seconded by a Valdosta newspaper.
We also hadn’t heard about an effort for northern California and southern Oregon to quit their respective states, creating the new State of Jefferson. That effort has been going on since 1941.
Over the years, U.S. state secession proposals have come from more than 30 of the 50 states, including parts of tiny, tiny Rhode Island.
The only people who succeeded in seceding from a state to become their own state was Maine - they used be part of Massachusetts.
So I guess if you South Floridians wanna leave the rest of your state, you better get in line.
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May 8th, 2008 at 9:09 am
South Florida already thinks it’s the center of the universe anyway, so this comes as no surprise. They were all that back in the 80s. Now, not so much.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:14 am
You know, what I’d like to see is a union of states. Instead of 50 we should have something like 10. Seriously, with the stripping down of the 10th amendment to mean almost nothing, we’ve lost most of the reason why states are separate anyway. I mean, it’s not like they’d be allowed to secede or anything. (And that’s a conversation for another time.) Why not use that to our advantage, create LESS states, and save ourselves some of the money that would otherwise be spent on duplicate bureaucratic costs?
May 8th, 2008 at 10:13 am
There have been movements on the west coast to not only split states but leave from the Union and form a new country.
And The Carl? South Florida might “already thinks it’s the center fo the universe” but that doesn’t go into the fact the Florida government’s priorities are alienating people.