Right of Self Determination
Four states have been established from existing states: Kentucky (from Virginia), Maine (from Massachusetts), Vermont (from New Hampshire and New York), and West Virginia (from Virginia). National Review
Six states are headed to the polls on Tuesday to make their voices heard on a number of state issues, from minimum wage to marijuana,
and then
there are the 11 counties of Colorado who are voting to decide if they even want to be part of Colorado at all.
The call for the northern counties to secede isn’t all that unusual anymore, as disgruntled pockets of different states try to voice their displeasure with the direction things are headed in the state capital. In Colorado’s case, the state’s rural northern counties see Denver “as a foreign land with which they share little in common,” the Denver Post reports. ~ Slate
"We really feel in northern and northeastern Colorado that we are ignored -- citizens' concerns are ignored, and we truly feel disenfranchised," Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway said.
Conway said the new laws don't support the interests of the northern part of the state, which is rich in agricultural history. Conway said that's why he and others are proposing to break away from Colorado to form a new state. KMOV- © 2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Secede 1.withdraw formally: to make a formal withdrawal of membership from an organization, state, or alliance.
SECEDE: to withdraw from an organization (as a religious communion or political party or federation)
