Western Maryland asks West Virginia to 'consider adding us' to their state
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Re: Western Maryland asks West Virginia to 'consider adding us' to their state
#2Same kind of thing happened in Virginia last year. But if this had happened (somehow) then Virginia wouldn't have a competitive campaign for governor this year
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/09/politics/west-virginia-republ...
Re: Western Maryland asks West Virginia to 'consider adding us' to their state
#3Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution:
“The legislature, in cooperation with the properly constituted authority of any adjoining state, is empowered to change, alter, and redefine the state boundaries, such change, alteration and redefinition to become effective only upon approval of the Congress of the United States.”
Essentially they’d need approval from WV, MD, and an act of Congress. Highly unlikely.
This issue is one of the many defects in democracies: your power sometimes rests in the way somebody drew a border a long time ago.
Re: Western Maryland asks West Virginia to 'consider adding us' to their state
#4Anyone got a mirror? The Baltimore Sun is one of those US local media outlets that block Europeans because of how much they "highly value" them.
EDIT: It's syndicated to msn: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/western-maryland-lawmakers...
Re: Western Maryland asks West Virginia to 'consider adding us' to their state
#5Tangential, but instead of making DC into a new state, why not just absorb it into Maryland? Virginia already absorbed the part of DC rhombus west of the Potomac.
Re: Western Maryland asks West Virginia to 'consider adding us' to their state
#6I am not sure I understand the goals here. Gerrymandering 2.0?
WV lost a seat in the 2020 census. Would move seats from Maryland to WV. From Blue to Red.
I like to idea just to square off WV's eastern panhandle. It would look nice on a map with a flat top.
Re: Western Maryland asks West Virginia to 'consider adding us' to their state
#7Tangential, but instead of making DC into a new state, why not just absorb it into Maryland? Virginia already absorbed the part of DC rhombus west of the Potomac.
Because one party wants two more uncompetitive senate seats.
Re: Western Maryland asks West Virginia to 'consider adding us' to their state
#8Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution: “The legislature, in cooperation with the properly constituted authority of any adjoining state, is empowered to change, alter, and redefine the state boundaries, such change, alteration and redefinition to become effective only upon approval of the Congress of the United States.” Essentially they’d need approval from WV, MD, and an act of Congress. Highly unlikely. This issu…
Yet people regularly try to push these ideas, from the earliest days of the Union when part of New Hampshire wanted to secede and join Vermont or form a new state in the Connecticut River valley (https://www.flowofhistory.org/the-rebellion-in-western-new-h...)
More recently, there was that expensive California idea pushed by Tim Draper, as well as a new country in the Pacific Northwest including parts of Canada and the U.S.
Re: Western Maryland asks West Virginia to 'consider adding us' to their state
#9Tangential, but instead of making DC into a new state, why not just absorb it into Maryland? Virginia already absorbed the part of DC rhombus west of the Potomac.
Because Maryland doesn't want DC and DC doesn't want Maryland.
Re: Western Maryland asks West Virginia to 'consider adding us' to their state
#10This type of stuff happens all the time- Northern Colorado has asked to join Wyoming, there have been various schemes to join parts of Appalachia together, etc. It all comes down to rural areas trying to combine with other rural areas, or occasionally, urban areas trying to expand.