Will any US State secede from the rest of the country before 2013?

I hear that Sarah Palin's planning a coup in Alaska

EL OH EL. Right wingers dog on everyone when they are in power, but when anyone with a different POV takes the reigns, they act like GD 5-year olds. I never heard liberals talk about seceding. Childish political behavior from people whose arguments have the logic of a 5-year old argument. Working as intended.

No one has seriously considered seceding from the country. Especially when talking about politicians, on both sides, who care too much about the money they receive from the government to want to secede. And i can see the two people who have commented on this before me have no clue what they're talking about since it's obvious they get their ideas of what a right-winger is and who Sarah Palin is from mainstream television. *rolls eyes*

well eliminati's comment is just uninformed.

I will quote an old article from The Washington Post, just to prove my point:


Will Vermont Secede from the Union?
The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State: Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again.
http://www.alternet.org/story/50056/

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In early 2003, transplanted Southerner and retired Duke University economics professor Thomas Naylor gave a speech at Johnson State College opposing the Iraq war. When he pitched the idea of secession to the crowd, he saw many eyes "light up," he said. Later that year, he and several others started a loosely organized movement (now a think tank) called the Second Vermont Republic, which has an independent quarterly journal, Vermont Commons, and a Web site.

In October 2005, about 300 Vermonters attended a statewide convention on the question of secession. Six months later, the annual Vermont Poll of the University of Vermont's Center for Rural Studies found that about 8 percent of respondents replied "yes" to peaceful secession, arguably making Vermont foremost among the many states with secessionist movements (including Alaska, California, Hawaii, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Texas).

We secessionists believe that the 350-year swing of history's pendulum toward large, centralized imperial states is once again reversing itself.

Why? First, the cost of oil and gas. According to urban planner James Howard Kunstler, "Anything organized on a gigantic scale ... will probably falter in the energy-scarce future." Second, third-wave technology is as inherently democratic and decentralist as second-wave technology was authoritarian and centralist. Gov. Jim Douglas wants Vermont to be the first "e-state," making broadband Internet access available to every household and business in the state by 2010. Vermont will soon be fully wired into the global social commons.

Against this backdrop, secessionists from all over the state will gather in June to plan a grass-roots campaign to get at least 200 towns to vote by 2012 on independence. We believe that one outcome of this meeting will be dialogues among different communities of Vermonters committed to achieving local economic vitality, be they farmers, entrepreneurs, bankers, merchants, lawyers, independent media providers, construction workers, manufacturers, artists, entertainers or anyone else with a stake in Vermont's future -- anyone for whom freedom is not just a slogan.

If Vermonters succeed in once again inventing vibrant local economies, these in turn may reinvigorate the small-scale democratic town meeting tradition, the true American Congress, and re-create the rudiments of a republic once again able to make its own way in the world. The once and future republic of Vermont.
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