A political committee made up of attorneys, including the former chairman of the Pima County Democratic Party, has been formed to try to get Southern Arizona to secede from the rest of the state ...

The recent rumblings from downstate Illinois have caught the attention of lawmakers across the border in Indiana, where ...

Some people said it was time for California - a frequently left-leaning, progressive state where Trump got only 38 percent of ...

Southern states seceded to protect slavery, while the North aimed to preserve the Union and later abolish slavery. ByAyukta Zisha. May 29, 2025, 05:17 EDT. Civil War.

Georgia voters approved a new state flag in 2003, dropping the Confederate symbolism. In recent years, as Americans have acknowledged that slavery was the primary motivator of Southern secession, ...

After the Civil War, in 1869, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Texas v.White that the U.S. is "an indestructible union" and states do not have the right to unilaterally secede. "When Texas became ...

One hundred sixty-three years after multiple Southern states seceded from the Union rather than accept a new president who was hostile to slavery, the origin of the Civil War is looming over ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.. One hundred sixty-three years after multiple Southern states seceded from the ...

He also points to a 2021 Bright Line Watch-YouGov survey that found that 66 percent of southern Republicans support seceding and forming a new country of southern states. Only 20 percent of southern ...

The most notable attempt at secession in U.S. history is, of course, that of the 11 southern Confederate states who split from the union in an attempt to stave the abolition of slavery in their ...

The new state would be known as the Republic for El Dorado State. Is county secession plan legal? Durst argues the case for secession based on Article 4, Section 3, of the Constitution, which ...