The sense that America is more divided than it used to be is backed by hard data. There’s been a sharp spike in the contempt that partisans express for their opponents, according to Pew Research Center polling. More than 4 in 10 Democrats and Republicans say the other party’s policies are so misguided that they pose a threat to the nation.
I wonder if it'd help for California to secede, as some people are now advocating. I think that a
large portion of Democrats are located in California, so there'd be a lot fewer Democrats who would have to worry about Republican policies, and vice-versa.
how did you embed the video? it doesn't work when i try and do it.
You can't.
Texas v. White (1869)
In deciding the merits of a bond issue, the court held that the Constitution did not permit states to unilaterally secede from the United States, and that the ordinances of secession, and all the acts of the legislatures within seceding states intended to give effect to such ordinances, were "absolutely null".
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among all thirteen original states in the United States of America that served as its first constitution. Its drafting by a committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress began on July 12, 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777. The formal ratification by all thirteen states was completed in early 1781. Government under the Articles was superseded by a new constitution and federal form of government in 1789. Now under constitutional rule the existing number of states cannot be increased and no state or territory may unilaterally decide it no longer chooses to remain a part and parcel of the United States of America.
The above is the reason Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa are not states. They are classified as unincorporated territories.
Any attempt of a local state or territory government that attempts to secede would likely be met with martial law from federal troops. That would either cause a retraction of the attempt or create a bloody civil war. I seriously doubt the pretentious pussys that live in multimillion dollar homes all around me in California, the ones that passed an assault rifle ban, would be able to muster up the forces to defeat a small army of heavily armed field mice. ROFL