Column: Here’s why rural communities across America want to secede from their states – Statesman Journal

"Under the Constitution, a state can’t be split unless both its legislature and Congress agree. States are unlikely to agree to their own fission unless pressured by, say, a budget deal to rescue them from bankruptcy (something not impossible in California or Illinois)."

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