Secession Talk Grows In Several Blue States

Massive rural areas of several 'blue' states are growing restless with talk of escaping the oppressions of their state legislatures, which are dominated by radical leftists from compacted urban zones.

• Oregon made national news this week when several groups began discussing the idea of joining 'Greater Idaho'. 
• Virginia took the tagline of 'VEXIT' where several counties openly ask to join West Virginia (which split off from Virginia during the Civil War) over the matter of gun rights. But that's just a 'final straw' in what has been a major cultural war. the DC area now dominates the state politics. Jerry Falwell jr. and Liberty University want Lynchburg to leave and join West Virginia.
• California has had at least 7 ideas in this century, alone; including a notion of creating 3 separate states out of the current geography. Now the northern counties are asking in on the Idaho-Oregon idea.
• Illinois wants to dump Greater Chicago metro into it's own state. the 5 million who live in Cook County are a bigger demographic than many of our current western states.

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• Minnesota went for Trump in 80 of the 87 counties. But those Clinton counties are mostly the Twin Cities cluster. the cultural divide has never been more start. I was shocked by a discussion with my own uncle, last year. we were at a family reunion in central Minnesota, where Trump had 70% of the vote. My uncle was a farm kid who moved to the cites several years ago, and has been on a kool aid diet of liberal narratives from the local socialist media.
• New York is a long story of two worlds. 'upstate' is very rural and could be mistaken for a midwestern farm economy in many places. But  NYC is full of themselves(even more than the Twin Cities)

USA Today went into further detail on several of these states.

Oklahoma Secession Talk
  I recall a Sunday editorial in the Tulsa World, back in 1992. David Averill pitched a half-serious idea of Northeastern Oklahoma seceding from Oklahoma and joining Kansas.
"The remark, this latest time, came during a conversation about State Question 640, the new constitutional amendment that effectively ended representative democracy in Oklahoma.", said Averill.
  Of all the arguments he pitched, his strongest might have been; "Tulsa would immediately be the largest city in Kansas!" No more being #2!
  I reprinted his old article at the old SoonerPolitics blog site.

 
​"Oklahoma City, the lair of the unenlightened."
- David Averill

Averill's 'Greater Kansas', including the 'bootheel' region which includes Tulsa.