The Rural Areas Pushing for Divorce From Democratic Cities – WSJ

As for the wannabe breakaway counties, a divorce could get messy. Becoming new states would require consent of the existing legislatures extremely unlikely in most blue states as well as Congress, according to Article IV, section III of the U.S. Constitution. That has only happened a handful of times, including the formation of Kentucky with the consent of Virginia and the founding of Maine, which was once part of Massachusetts.

Yet when West Virginia sought statehood during the Civil War, Congress approved even without the consent of Virginia s legislature in Richmond, which had voted to secede.

Preston thinks that could be an opening for New California. He said he plans to petition Congress for statehood based on the argument that the current California government is a one-party communist state, and technically, they have seceded from the Union already.

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I’m up for it.