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Proposed state or autonomous region: Confederate States of America or Southern United States or Dixie or Dixieland. Advocacy groups: League of the South, [89] [90] [91] other neo-Confederate and non-confederate southern separatist groups. Deseret [92] Ethnic group: Mormons; Proposed state or autonomous region: Deseret
A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential election. In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a ...
Maine became the 23rd state on March 15, 1820, as part of the Missouri Compromise, which also geographically limited the spread of slavery and enabled the admission to statehood of Missouri the following year. [57] [58] [59] During the abolitionist era some supporters of William Lloyd Garrison sought the secession of Essex County from the state ...
"A lot of time, secessionist movements are really just bargaining efforts." Griffiths said scholars who study secession efforts, like those of the former U.S.S.R., see U.S.-based movements as ...
Confederate States of America; New England's Secession Conventions of 1803, 1808, 1814, and 1843; Republic of New Afrika; State of Franklin, secessionist North Carolina western territory (1784–1789) State of Muskogee, secessionist Florida territory (1799 - 1803) For historic Texas separatist movements, see Mexico, above. Republic of West Florida
A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.
These articles relate to acts or discussions of partition, separatism, or secession, usually of states, ... Hawaiian sovereignty movement (2 C, 12 P) M.
Ruiz Evans, who has been angling for secession since 2012, is a staunch Donald Trump opponent, unlike his former partner in the effort, who has now abandoned the project after years of attempts.