It just seems wrong to me, kind of like not allowing divorces. If states don’t see eye to eye on most issues anymore, why should they be forced to stay together? Forcing 2 or more parties with wildly different outlooks on things to stay together just creates division and conflict. Everyone should be allowed to go their own way, for their good and others’. Saying this as someone from Massachusetts - I’d really support my state seceding and forming some sort of federation with other like-minded Northeastern states.
People can’t decide to secede and be sovereign citizens. Why would that change just because it’s now a larger group of people?
Wyoming has about 600,000 people. What if they all wanted to leave? What if 1,200,000 people in California wanted to leave? That’s twice as many people! Can they leave? What if 70% of a state wants to leave but 30% want to stay? Do the people who want to stay just get dragged out? There’s just no nice clean way for secession to happen. If people want to secede, they unfortunately need to want it enough to fight a civil war.
^This. Also, many other complex details. Imagine Colorado seceding. It is surrounded by American states, has federal land inside it, interstate highways maintained (at least partially) by federal, etc. It’s a logistical nightmare. Seceding for the right reasons sounds cool af though. I’d love to be in a place that wasn’t ruled by two political parties that only exist to take from its citizens and give to corporations. My state would fucking die on its own, though. Especially so, now that has turned solidly red.