Add the other 51st state movements out west - Jefferson (Southern Oregon and Northern California) which has been going on since about 1941, as well as the movement (don't knnow the name of them) in southeast California... face it, we normal people are fed up with the liberal politics of Urban(e) California (and northwest Oregon, for that matter). I see 6 new senators... so far.

I think that should any of them succeed, it will start a waterfall... we may end up with 72 states rather than 50. Wouldn't bother me none, either...

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln
I'm afraid this great nation is on the cusp of dissolution if something dramatic does not occur to change the direction... We are no longer a nation of laws, but of men... We no longer have a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
Respectfully,
O.A.

Thank you for your comments. Rather secede from the union, forming another state seems to be more palatable. The reason the counties are annoyed is from federal gun control and energy policies. Guess I won't have to remove my NRA sticker from my car.

Would someone please tell me what they are attempting to accomplish? Or, for that matter, who are they upset with?

If they are only separating from their home state, and becoming a new state. then they are still under DC rule.

Could this be the ultimate polarization of Americans? To the point that you want to put yourself into a different (read: new) state from your liberal neighbor? What happens to the liberals already living in your new state boundaries?

All I need is some info....

hey Ben, LTNS. um, have you ever been to Greeley? They have some sort of grain processing and the place stinks 24/7. granby is nicer though. The federal government will not let it happen. Most of the good gulches in Colorado are infested with progressives. it's annoying. Don't pack your bags too quickly

There are also some counties in Western Nebraska considering to join in with them. It will be interesting in the coming weeks to see what becomes of their movement.