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There is no mechanism for dissolution.
Well there is war, but the last guys who tried that picked the wrong side of morality and furthermore lost badly. Since then, no one thinks secession is very credible in the USA.
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What are some of these broad statewide problems in California?
2019: water. 2020: water, and vaccine mandates.
I'm currently reading Inside USA and it's amazing how many of the issues the author describes remain current. Western water management is a big one, along with structural racism in the south.
Fun fact: they would be moving from the state with the highest median household income to the state with the lowest. I suppose this would only make Maryland richer by that metric. Personally, I’d rather cut my own foot off with a rusty steak knife than live in West Virginia, which has basically nothing going for it except some decent wilderness. It doesn’t help that I have relatives there who love the confederate fla…
Western Maryland has a pretty low cost of living. I live in the Baltimore/DC area and have co-workers who live in Frederick because they could get a large house for cheap (and 3 the counties being discussed in the article are to the west of Frederick). If the counties were able to succeed and join WV, I wonder how many Marylanders would move out there for the low taxes.