North Colorado: 51st state

Read something on this months ago but it's for real now that the NYT hit the scene:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/us/fed-up-on-the-prairie-and-voting-on-seceding-from-colorado.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=US_FUO_20131007&_r=0

 

Western Maryland is on it:

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-09-18/news/bs-ed-schaller-secession-20130918_1_secession-democrats-tea

 

51st? Pshaw. The State of Jefferson, on the California-Oregon border, is just about printing flags.

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/10/06/5795950/northern-exposure-state-of-jefferson.html

 

And let's not forget Michigan's U.P. .... er, the state of Superior:

http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?id=748688#.UlMQ6Rz3K4g

 

Key West scoffs at all of them.

 

Their star-spangled Union Jack flutters so proud.

 

Eastern Washington and Oregon have nothing in common with their brethren west of the Cascades.

 

From a strictly geographic standpoint I've always wondered how the eastern part of Maryland & the little sliver of peninsular Virginia didn't wind up as part of Delaware when the early states were carved out.

 

Wouldn't that be "58th" state? We already have 57.

 

As MileHigh said, it won't happen. There's simply no way for these counties to survive on their own as a state and they know it. They don't have a tax base to stand on their own and would find themselves immediately depending on the federal government to support them for everything and anything.

I seriously doubt Moffat County will be allowed to be annexed into Wyoming, either. Colorado's state legislature would reject it and there's no guarantee Wyoming's state legislature would allow it to happen.

The only objection of which I sympathize with the rural counties is how their schools get pushed to the side. It's typical of how it works in many states, with urban schools getting the money and rural schools getting shortchanged. With that said, watch what happens when they try to support rural schools on their tax base alone.