'The invitation is wide open,' West Virginia's governor said of the idea.
on Friday, called solely to address the Maryland counties. “You sure as the dickens won’t ever regret it!”."If you want to be irrelevant, you pull stunts like this," the paper wrote in a Friday editorial, noting at least two of the counties listed for secession receive more than 40% of their annual budgets in state funds—well above the average of 26.8% in Maryland counties.
There have been numerous proposals in recent years for regions of states to break away to join a neighbor, usually for political reasons, but none have gained any real traction. The most serious effort, relatively speaking, came last November, when two Oregon counties passed a ballot measure asking local officials to hold meetings about breaking off from the.
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