Quote (Skinned @ Jun 7 2013 11:05am)

DC isn't a state, it is a city.  It doesn't have a senator or a governor....it has a mayor and a congressman.

Also I'm not sure that Southern Colorado will consent to being ripped in half.

Quote (Caedus @ Jun 7 2013 11:05am)

Are they economically important enough to be their own state? No? Then they can be told to fuck off.

Quote (SwaziSpring @ Jun 7 2013 11:14am)

Basically, a lot of people in rural Colorado are tired of liberal urbanites dictating policies to them. Colorado is a state whose government is heavily slanted towards the predominately left-wing urban population, leaving the rural population with no real influence or say in government. To make matters worse, the left-wing government has recently passed tax increases that only apply to those living in rural areas and banning guns. As thus, the good people of Northern Colorado want to secede and become a new state. Do you think they should become a state?

Quote (inkanddagger @ Jun 7 2013 11:15am)

It's gonna be lulz when those people are all starving to death and have no electricity.

Quote (ReturnFormer @ Jun 7 2013 11:28am)

instead of seceding to become their own state, why not make them part of wyoming or nebraska?  i imagine those are closer in line to their principles and needs.

Quote (Santara @ Jun 7 2013 12:08pm)

States aren't organized around their economic power. They are organized to represent the interests of their inhabitants. These people felt they were not represented at all.

Quote (Santara @ Jun 7 2013 09:38am)

That isn't the issue. The issue is that a bunch of legislators from urban Colorado, in their push to be green, didn't take their rural counterparts into the considerations for the bill, and forced it on just rural areas. It's akin to taxation without representation in principle.