Secession Movement Alive In West

F rustrated separatists can agitate all they want to for a state of their own, but if we ever add a star to Old Glory, it’s more likely to represent Puerto Rico, American Samoa or Washington, D.C., than North Colorado. Earlier this month, voters in 11 sparsely populated Colorado counties got a chance to express their distaste for their state government — which is not geographically distant, but culturally a world away in Denver. On their ballots was an option to secede from Colorado. “We simply want to be left alone to live our lives without a dictatorial central government forcing itself upon us,” zealots explained on their website, 51ststate.org . Nonetheless, voters in only five of the 11 counties chose to pursue independence from the Mile High City/ Peter Laufer , Inlander. More here.

Question: Would you really, truly want North Idaho to secede from the Kingdom of Ada if it could?