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CALIFORNIA: Are you ready to secede from the United States?
I have decided to secede from the Hall of Presidents.
Trying to secede from the union over slavery: also worse.
In response, South Carolina voted to secede from the Union.
They threatened to secede from the Union if Republicans won.
Very few redoubters, however, wish to secede from the United States.
Eritrea proclaimed its independence from Ethiopia; Ethiopia did not secede from Eritrea.
It looked like purple was trying to secede from the color spectrum.
One chose 1860, the year Southern states began to secede from the Union.
All three voted to secede from Spain in a referendum on Oct. 1.
Not Winston: as Don Dodd, a local historian, records in his chronicle of the county, a resolution passed by a meeting at Looney's Tavern reasoned that if a state could secede from the Union, a county could secede from a state.
In 1988, Nagorno-Karabakh voted to secede from then-Soviet Azerbaijan and join Armenia.
But now there is a movement in the Golden State to secede from the Union.
In the early nineteen-nineties, Chechens overwhelmingly supported a secular movement to secede from Russia.
The regional government in Catalonia is forging ahead with a plan to secede from Spain.
The Kurdish region of northern Iraq voted to secede from Iraq in a non-binding referendum.
The lightning attack followed a referendum last month in which Kurds voted to secede from Iraq.
But less than two months after the election, South Carolina voted to secede from the union.
The fighting dates back to 1988, when Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenians attempted to secede from Azerbaijan.
Purchase unsuccessfully tried to secede from Harrison in the 1960s and 1970s to control its growth.
So, they're going to secede from Westeros and become a free territory once again — with her ruling.
Flemish separatists who seek to secede from Belgium have been longstanding allies of the Catalan independence movement.
Talabani's death comes a week after Iraqi Kurds voted to secede from Iraq in a controversial referendum.
Happy Wednesday and welcome back to Overnight Finance, where we pledge not to secede from The Hill.
The October 1 referendum produced a lopsided result: 90 percent of voters voted to secede from Spain.
Since 2000, 70 other communities have tried to secede from their district, according to the recent EdBuild report.
Were Catalonia able to secede from Spain yet keep its existing trade relationships, leaving would look quite attractive.
Today in the state there is a quixotic but ambitious movement to have California secede from the union.
They should secede from mainstream culture, pull their children from public school, put down roots in separate communities.
The wealthy northeastern region plans to hold a popular vote on whether it should secede from Spain on Oct.
The History By a margin of 23 votes, residents of Glen Ridge voted to secede from Bloomfield on Feb.
She hopes BRCA Sisterhood can use it to secede from Facebook and provide a model for other patient communities.
It's so proud that we've been threatening to secede from the US for a hell of a long time.
Mississippi was the second state to secede from the U.S. — in whose Senate Hyde-Smith currently serves — in January 1861.
The South Sudanese, who are mostly black African and non-Muslim, fought for half a century to secede from Sudan.
Since 2000, more than 128 wealthy neighbourhoods have agitated to secede from school districts in an attempt to hoard resources.
The Kurdish security forces report to an autonomous, parallel government in Erbil, which has often threatened to secede from Iraq.
A bias toward local action cannot be seen as an invitation to individual communities to selectively secede from the Constitution.
On Twitter, for instance, Mr. Pishevar said he would fund a campaign to get California to secede from the nation.
The Biafra movement, mainly made-up of Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria, fought to secede from Nigeria between 1967-70.
After the presidential election, a proposal to secede from the union, driven by liberals and known as Calexit, gained attention.
Some 11 years later, South Carolina would lead the Confederacy by becoming the first state to secede from the Union.
And if Brexit boosts the momentum for Scotland to secede from the UK, Britain would lose its only nuclear submarine base.
Puigdemont appeared to admit the end of his attempt to lead Catalonia to secede from Spain and become an independent country.
In 85033, he also reportedly praised Virginia's decision to secede from the United States at the onset of the Civil War.
In 1988, ethnic Armenians voted to secede from Azerbaijan, and fighting broke out between the mostly Muslim Azerbaijanis and Christian Armenians.
In more parallels with the 1860's we even have calls for states to secede from the United States, the Union!
A group of California residents wants to secede from the United States and who can blame them after Tuesday's presidential election?
Seven ballot measures have been cleared for circulation, including one that will ask voters whether California should secede from the union.
In her speech, Sturgeon will reiterate she will only seek to secede from the United Kingdom through a properly agreed referendum.
In her speech, Sturgeon will reiterate she will only seek to secede from the United Kingdom through a properly agreed referendum.
" The northeastern counties of California would like to secede from the state and establish their own right-wing state called "Jefferson.
Catalonia's chaotic bid to secede from Spain took another turn on Monday when a judge denied bail to four pro-independence figures.
Their offensive followed a referendum last month in which the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region voted to secede from Iraq against Baghdad's wishes.
Rohrabacher has made headlines for his friendly outlook on Russia, and he supported the right of Crimea to secede from the Ukraine.
Then again, rational minds gave the same answer to the question of whether Britain would choose to secede from the European Union.
The first referendum on whether Quebec should secede from Canada was in 1980; the "no" side won by nearly 20 percentage points.
Resentments boiled over in 1993 when they voted by a margin of nearly two to one to secede from New York City.
Jim Justice (R) encouraged Virginia counties unhappy with the Democratic-controlled government in Richmond to secede from the state and join his.
Thankfully, the U.S. Constitution will make much of his rhetoric as difficult to implement as it is to secede from the Union.
Some of the king's supporters have called for Ruwenzori to secede from Uganda and become a republic called Yiira, according to Col.
The latter operates virtually as an independent state and has for years sought to secede from Somalia, but has not won international recognition.
How will this be affected if Scotland, whose people passionately wish to remain part of Europe, vote to secede from the United Kingdom?
Last year, an effort dubbed Calexit sought to bring the question of whether California should secede from the US to this year's ballot.
I sometimes think Long Island should secede from New York to form a new state because NYS always spends LI/NYC money upstate.
So in 22016, the Catalan government called for an independence referendum, and even though turnout was low, voters opted to secede from Spain.
For decades, many Catalans (as people from the region are known) have pushed to secede from Spain and create their own independent country.
Following Virginia's vote to secede from the Union in the run-up to the Civil War, West Virginians broke off -- opposing the move.
In the past two decades, dozens of affluent, mostly white communities have tried to secede from diverse school districts to form their own.
I am not naïve enough to think it could ever happen, but many of us would just as soon secede from the union.
Back in 2014, Srinivasan made headlines because he was very vocal about his belief that Silicon Valley should secede from the rest of society.
North and south Yemen united into a single state in 1990, but southern separatists tried to secede from the pro-union north in 1994.
Both indices appeared on track for their biggest one-day percentage decline since June 24, after Britain voted to secede from the European Union.
Californians who want their state to secede from the United States can now start collecting signatures to put the initiative on the 2018 ballot.
Early on Monday, the Spanish government gave Catalonian leadership three days to declare whether it will try to secede from Spain and claim independence.
The political deadlock in Madrid also comes as the Catalan regional government is pressing ahead with plans to secede from the rest of Spain.
The ceremony here took place only after a unique and controversial push by Catalan lawmakers, many of whom now want to secede from Spain.
Despite this repression, more than 90 percent of the voters on Sunday — more than two million people — in Catalonia voted to secede from Spain.
The backlash from conservative Virginians has involved an armed march on the state capitol, and even schemes for counties to secede from the state.
So, look, if they secede from the Union and President Maxine Waters wants to make him the attorney general in California, more power to him.
The report said the plan for the Golden State to secede from the union would require significant resources to gather signatures, including major financial backing.
Barzani's KRG, however, says the referendum will give it a mandate for talks to secede from Iraq, but Baghdad has already ruled out such talks.
Catalans are set to vote on whether to secede from Spain on Sunday, and the central government is vowing to block them from casting ballots.
Amid confrontations between voters and Spanish police, only 43 percent of Catalans participated — but of those, more than 90 percent voted to secede from Spain.
The Education Issue What one Alabama town's attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in America.
He argued that white communities should not be able to secede from districts placed under school desegregation orders in order to avoid integrating their schools.
Mr. Odinga's followers threaten to secede from the country if his main demands — dialogue and a path to new elections this year — are not met.
On the agenda is a motion to set up a committee to investigate "WAxit," the somewhat awkward moniker for the proposal to secede from Australia.
Four years before, he had given a speech to the Bosnian Assembly threatening Muslims with "annihilation" if they voted to secede from the disintegrating Yugoslavia.
A three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the attempt by Gardendale to secede from the county had racial motives.
The conspirators had planned to invite 18 clubs to secede from their national divisions, in pursuit of the greater riches offered by an exclusive international franchise.
In June of 1861, the state voted to secede from the Union, but couldn't, because it was occupied by Union troops and operating under martial law.
Venture capitalist and Hyperloop One co-founder Shervin Pishevar said he wants to help California to secede from the United States and a Donald Trump presidency.
Tens of thousands of people have died in the armed revolt to secede from India that erupted in 1989 and has ebbed and flowed since then.
The shock British vote in June to secede from the EU has chilled already tepid growth in the euro area and has shaken global financial markets.
The Kurdistan Regional Government says the referendum will give it a mandate for talks to secede from Iraq, although Baghdad has already ruled out such talks.
The turmoil in Spain comes as politicians in the northeastern region of Catalonia are forging ahead with plans to secede from the rest of the country.
Mike: Here's something that could make it worse: There's actually a movement by a handful of tech leaders to urge California to secede from the union.
The separatist leader, Oriol Junqueras, is one of 12 people charged with rebellion and other crimes over Catalonia's failed attempt to secede from Spain in 2017.
Already tens of thousands of people have died in the armed revolt to secede from India that erupted in 1989 and has ebbed and flowed since then.
The Kurdistan Regional Government, however, says the referendum will give it a mandate for talks to secede from Iraq, although Baghdad has already ruled out such talks.
With an economy larger than France, there is no doubt California could survive on its own, but would its population really want to secede from the Union?
By turns frustrating, enigmatic, unpredictable and combative, Mr. Puigdemont had become the embodiment of Catalonia's aspirations for independence after leading a thwarted effort to secede from Spain.
Long before Carles Puigdemont and other separatist leaders sought to secede from Spain in recent months, Catalonia played a central and often turbulent part in Spanish politics.
In June, the legislature of Texas Boys State — the mock-government exercise for high schoolers, run by the American Legion — voted overwhelmingly to secede from the union.
Catalan is spoken in Catalonia, the Spanish region that includes Barcelona and where political leaders have been pushing for years to secede from the rest of Spain.
Maryland did not secede from the Union only because of the suspension of habeas corpus by President Abraham Lincoln and the selective jailing of the state legislature.
California dreaming A Trump presidency is a no-go for a lot of Californians, so a movement for the state to secede from the US is gaining steam.
Wardlow had opened his mouth and the words had leapt out: The Florida Keys would secede from the United States as an act of protest against the government.
When the letter was written Gandhi was leader of the Indian National Congress, a political party that pushed for the sprawling country to secede from the British Empire.
On the eve of the Civil War, the mayor of New York proposed that the city secede from the Union to protect its economic relationship with the South.
A big jump in the tax rate this year revived calls for Black Rock to secede from Bridgeport and rejoin Fairfield, which it was part of before 1870.
Qayoom, a supporter of separatist groups that want the region to secede from India, has been detained under the PSA in a jail in the country's capital New Delhi.
Earlier this month, voters in the autonomous Spanish region of Catalonia overwhelmingly approved a controversial referendum to secede from the country, though the consequence of the vote remains unclear.
The leaders of Catalonia, the semiautonomous region that is home to Barcelona, were threatening to hold a referendum on the question of whether Catalans ought to secede from Spain.
Catalonia's president is under mounting pressure at home and internationally to drop plans to secede from Spain, ahead of a critical address to lawmakers where he could declare independence.
According to those who were close to him at the time, he privately voiced desires to run for Congress — and for Idaho to secede from the Union (Regan denies this).
Kentucky, the birthplace of both U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, who led the Union, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, did not secede from the Union, but Kentuckians fought on both sides.
An Alabama judge made headlines in April 85033 for allowing a majority-white Alabama city to secede from a predominantly black county school system, though the decision was later reversed.
In Estremera, the village's economy was lifted a decade ago by the opening of a penitentiary, whose inmates now include Catalan politicians awaiting trial for trying to secede from Spain.
In the show, "Confederate," the South does, indeed, secede from the Union, the Mason-Dixon line is a demilitarized zone and slavery is the law of the land below it.
Kerr responded to that Game 6 defeat to the Toronto Raptors by jokingly asking Adam Silver, the N.B.A. commissioner, to allow his team to secede from the league for one season.
But in her ruling, Judge Haikala still allowed Gardendale and its mostly white residents to secede from the Jefferson County District, as long as they followed a three-year desegregation plan.
As for the Civil War claim, many pointed to the nullification crisis of 1832-33, when Jackson threatened to invade South Carolina after it threatened to secede from the United States.
Nigeria is in the grips of civil war, one very similar to the real Biafran War that ravaged the Igbo tribe in 1967-70 as they attempted to secede from Nigeria.
Sessions, who gets his name from Confederate President Jefferson Davis, invoked the Civil War in reprimanding the state, accusing it of trying to nullify federal law and secede from the Union.
Another aspirant who was sidelined is from the fledgling Hong Kong National Party, which calls for the city to secede from China and become a full-blown nation of its own.
MADRID — Almost a year after failing to secede from Spain, the separatist politicians who govern Catalonia plan another show of force on Tuesday, with the celebration of the region's national day.
The content of the ads varies widely: one promotes a Bernie Sanders coloring book, while another screams that it's time for Texans to secede from the rest of the United States.
The groups we hear about the most tend to have more understandable political goals, like installing an Islamist regime or winning the right for their region to secede from a country.
And it falls in line with the increasing number of communities who, instead of moving, are using their political power to draw new school district boundaries and secede from the existing district.
Italy's Constitutional Court threw out Zaia's original plan to ask voters if they wanted Veneto to secede from Italy or keep control of 80 percent of tax revenue collected in the region.
Gardendale is wealthier and much whiter than the rest of Jefferson County — but eight other communities had managed to secede from Jefferson County District, so Gardendale was just the next in line.
As such, the south - where many long wanted to secede from the north - is not included in peace talks mediated by U.N. negotiator Martin Griffiths as a party in its own right.
Because no one knows who would form the government were Britain to secede from the EU, no one is in a position to say what form, if any, such laws would take.
Despite being an autonomous province since 1972, giving it a greater level of self-determination - the region has a secessionist movement that would like to secede from Italy and reunify with Austria.
Here's what you need to know: • In Catalonia, parties seeking to secede from Spain narrowly won an election called by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who hoped to calm the country's constitutional crisis.
He swept to victory when southerners tried to secede from united Yemen in 1994 and drew closer to Saudi Arabia, which he allowed to spread its radical Wahhabi form of Sunni Islam.
She zeros in on an Alabama town that tried to secede from its school district, and what the ensuing court battle tells us about the fragile process of racial integration in America.
News Analysis MADRID — If it appeared for a moment that Catalonia's drive to secede from Spain would implode along with the political fortunes of its leader, it has not turned out that way.
I think it was Queen City Jazz, where it's basically like a giant raft city, where they just float out into the gulf and secede from all the other stuff that's going on.
Calls for California to secede from the U.S. — fyi, we'll need a lot more firepower than what comes from servers to do that — come only because figuring out what's next is really hard.
The United States is among several global players that have publicly opposed the Kurdish vote to secede from Iraq, with regional powerhouses Turkey and Iran saying they'll halt trade with the Kurdish region.
Virginia Senate candidate Corey Stewart, who has come under fire for supporting white nationalists, in a 2017 speech praised the state's decision to secede from the United States at the Civil War's outset.
Buchanan threatened to read Douglas out of the party, turning to the example of President Andrew Jackson decades earlier during the Nullification Crisis, in which South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union.
MADRID (Reuters) - Former Catalan deputy leader Oriol Junqueras, standing trial in Madrid for rebellion, said on Thursday he was a political prisoner and insisted his region had the right to secede from Spain.
Spain: Twelve people went on trial for their roles in Catalonia's attempt to secede from Spain in 2017, and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is scrambling to keep the issue from toppling his leadership.
Bannon also took aim at the Silicon Valley and its "lords of technology," predicting that tech leaders and progressives in the state would try to secede from the union in 10 to 15 years.
ROME — The citizens of two northern Italian regions voted overwhelmingly on Sunday in favor of greater autonomy in closely watched referendums that come on the heels of Catalonia's tortuous attempts to secede from Spain.
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon warned Friday that California may attempt to secede from the United States in the next decade if Republicans do not attempt to reassume control of the state.
His comments come after former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon warned California may try to secede from the U.S. in the next decade if Republicans don't attempt to reassume control of the state.
But that's not the only thing you need to understand about the Catalan drive to secede from Spain, which is expected to lead to a formal (if likely ineffectual) declaration of independence on Tuesday.
Hyslop confirmed First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's intention to look again at a push to secede from the UK once London and Brussels have struck an outline accord late this year on a post-Brexit relationship.
MADRID, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Former Catalan deputy leader Oriol Junqueras, standing trial in Madrid for rebellion, said on Thursday he was a political prisoner and insisted his region had the right to secede from Spain.
In that village soldiers terrified civilians by burning houses and shooting indiscriminately as part of a crackdown on militias that want the primarily English-speaking areas of Cameroon to secede from the predominantly Francophone country.
Tammy Blair, the chairwoman of the Republican Party in nearby Cherokee County, said there were differing definitions of extreme, adding that she was sympathetic to the movement to have Texas secede from the United States.
And this is largely true — and part of the state's history, as it was one of a handful of states where slavery was legal but that didn't secede from the Union in the Civil War.
In addition to being a leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan, Edmund Pettus was a general in the Confederate army, which sought to secede from the Union in order to maintain the system of slavery.
In contrast, venture capitalist and Hyperloop One co-founder Shervin Pishevar told CNBC before the results were in that he wants to help California to secede from the U.S. in the event of a Trump win.
After two years of circuitous negotiations, London largely granted the restive Anguillans' request to secede from the federation with St. Kitts and Nevis and return to the mother country as a representative democratic dependency of Britain.
Opinion IN the wake of the presidential election, as Democrats realized that Republicans will soon control all three branches of the federal government, progressives disinclined to secede from the Union rediscovered another exit strategy: states' rights.
At the Texas Republican Convention here, state delegates met and struck a resolution from being added to the party's platform that endorses the idea of a referendum for Texans to vote to secede from the United States.
MADRID — The Catalan separatist parties on Saturday reached an 11th-hour agreement to replace the leader of the region, Artur Mas, and avoid new elections that risked derailing Catalonia's push to secede from the rest of Spain.
He studied in Iran and Syria, but rose to prominence for fiery sermons after his return in which he criticized the ruling family and called for Shiite empowerment, even suggesting that Shiites could secede from the kingdom.
The deep divisions between pro-unity Spaniards and secessionists in Catalonia were highlighted on Tuesday with the start of a trial of 12 separatists charged with rebellion following an attempt in October 2017 to secede from Spain.
The Estelada flag has taken on particular importance in recent years as Catalan separatist parties, which now hold a majority of seats in the regional Parliament, forge ahead with plans to secede from the rest of Spain.
Pishevar, a Democratic donor, was also a supporter of a movement for California to secede from the U.S. — another position that, according to his lawsuit, Definers allegedly used in a bid to illustrate the investor's Russia connections.
A group of Republican state legislators in South Carolina introduced a measure Thursday that would allow the state to secede from the United States if the federal government began to seize legally purchased firearms in the state.
The bill, which was referred to the state House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, would allow South Carolina lawmakers to debate whether to secede from the United States if the federal government were to violate the Second Amendment.
The idea that farmers and merchants and lawyers could secede from a kingdom and fight and win a war against the king&aposs army was the end result of the multigenerational movement that was articulated in the declaration.
In the decades after the war, a number of Southern historians began to write that slaveholders were noble and had the right to secede from the Union when the North wished to interfere with their way of life.
In the wake of Donald Trump's stunning victory in the presidential election, there's a growing movement among liberals in California for the state to secede from the United States —a so-called "Calexit," after the UK's own Brexit.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Donald Trump should lay off talking about the break-up of the European Union, the bloc's chief executive said on Wednesday, pointing out that Europeans do not push for Ohio to secede from the United States.
As the government's desire to secede from Spain grows, so does its determination to enforce Catalan as the region's only official language, says Francisco Caja, president of Convivencia Civica Catalana, an association which offers legal advice on linguistic issues.
Johnson, speaking to reporters in New York and the United Nations headquarters, also said Britain has been approached by several countries interested in trade deals after U..K voters chose last month in a referendum to secede from the European Union.
Johnson, speaking to reporters in New York and the United Nations headquarters, also said Britain has been approached by several countries interested in trade deals after UK voters chose last month in a referendum to secede from the European Union.
Credit rating agency S&P said that while it did not it expect Catalonia, a wealthy region that borders France, to secede from Spain, protracted tensions between Madrid and Barcelona could have a negative impact on the country's economic growth outlook.
MADRID — After listening to 422 witnesses in four months, the Spanish Supreme Court on Wednesday closed the trial of 12 leaders of the Catalan independence movement accused of staging a rebellion during their botched attempt to secede from Spain in 2017.
While the city government declined to disclose a reason, it appeared to be in response to the journalist hosting a talk with Andy Chan, the leader of a small political party that calls on Hong Kong to secede from China.
When he compares Robert E. Lee to George Washington, he's sure to thrill the hearts of people who believe the Confederacy was morally right to secede from the United States of America, and that the horrors of slavery are overblown at best.
North and south Yemen united into a single state in 1990, but when separatists tried to secede from the pro-union north in 1994, their forces were swiftly beaten, and more power and resources flowed to the northern capital of Sanaa, angering many.
In a new clip from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, an animatronic Abraham Lincoln threatens to "secede" from Disney's Hall of Presidents due to the planned addition of a moving, speaking animatronic Donald Trump, expected to join the attraction in late 2017.
MADRID (Reuters) - Two more jailed Catalan separatist leaders awaiting trial for their role in the region's failed bid to secede from Spain joined a hunger strike started two days ago by two of their companions to protest against their treatment by Spanish courts.
On Sunday the citizens of the Catalonia region will vote on whether to secede from Spain – provided that the Spanish state, which has already arrested leaders of the referendum and confiscated voting materials, does not carry out threats to block all voting stations.
"I know this issue has had a lot of discussion recently, but there is no established method or procedure for counties to secede from the Commonwealth," Jeff Sharp, a senior attorney with the Virginia General Assembly, said in an email to CNN.
In October, Spain's Supreme Court sentenced Mr. Junqueras and eight other former Catalan leaders to prison for their involvement in a botched attempt to secede from Spain in 2017, after holding an independence referendum that had been declared unconstitutional by Spanish courts.
Your arguments about why Scots should reject independence amounts to saying that Scotland would face the very same perils if it were to secede from the United Kingdom that the UK faces when it leaves the European Union ("Leave one union, lose another", March 22012th).
Harold Ray Crews, a lawyer based near Kernersville, North Carolina, moonlights as the chairman of his state chapter's League of the South, a neo-Confederate network that wants the South to secede from the rest of the US and establish an "Anglo-Celtic" majority.
Though Mr. Iriondo still hopes for greater autonomy for the region, he does not want Basque separatists to follow their counterparts in Catalonia, whose parliament voted on Friday to secede from Spain, prompting the Spanish government to take administrative control of Catalonia hours later.
Voters in Spain's prosperous Catalonia region will be asked to choose in less than a month if they want to secede from Spain, the region's pro-independence ruling government announced Wednesday in a move that puts it in open defiance of central authorities in Madrid.
Hostility deepened this month after Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite inter-ethnic presidency, again threatened that the Serb region might secede from Bosnia in a row over the Constitutional Court, and called on Serb officials to block the work of national institutions.
"If you do not roll this back ... 10 or 15 years from now the folks in Silicon Valley and the progressive left in this state are going to try to secede from the Union," Bannon told a group of college Republicans in Anaheim, Calif.
The man at the center of the political crisis ripping apart Spain has just attempted to pull off the impossible: both declaring that his native Catalonia has the right to secede from Spain and then immediately making clear that he wouldn't actually be seceding.
My grandfather was so sure that Texas was going to secede from the Union in the 40s, he made all of the pregnant women in my family stay in Texas so that the babies can be born here and be citizens of Texas, not the Union.
Why it matters: The political instability from Catalonia's attempt to secede from Spain had real consequences for its economy — and it could continue as exiled former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, who led the independence movement, hopes to return to office at the end of the month.
The biggest issue in campaigning for the April 28 vote has been Madrid's handling of Catalan discontent that led to the 2017 plebiscite and an ultimately abortive attempt to secede from Spain, with right-of-center parties calling for tougher action against the Catalan government in Barcelona.
Since those protests failed to achieve their goals, some of the activists involved have taken a harder line, going so far as to demand that Hong Kong be allowed to secede from China — an idea Beijing views with anathema, as Mr. Zhang's remarks on Thursday emphasized.
Deposed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and several members of his pro-independence administration traveled to Brussels in Belgium on Monday and hired a lawyer, fueling speculation that they could try to seek asylum there in order to avoid possible prison sentences for trying to secede from Spain.
Not until Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales all fracture off from England -- not as absurd-sounding a proposition as it was 20 years ago -- and not until pro-EU London tires of Brexit and votes to secede from England will Great Britain's greatness truly be spent.
" (Abraham Lincoln invoked the same argument in denying the South's power to secede from the Union.) In an opinion echoing Washington's Farewell Address, which had defined the United States as "one people," Marshall wrote an eloquent paean to national unity: "In war, we are one people.
A lot of the content had to do with gun rights, veterans issues, patriotism, feminism, and even the movement to have California secede from the US. It's very likely, though, that the IRA aimed to stoke divisions based on those issues in part to influence the election.
Memo from Lombardy MILAN — Catalonia has been racked by sound and fury over a drive to secede from Spain, but on a recent morning in Lombardy, which will vote on Sunday on whether to demand greater autonomy from Italy, the mood was distinctly more laid back.
After winning the election in 1989 with just over 50 percent of the vote, he lost in 1993 with just below 50 percent, a difference often attributed to a surge in voter turnout in Staten Island, where voters had a ballot initiative to secede from the city.
With such a resounding vote for self-determination, Bougainville has become a visible inspiration for other independence movements in the Pacific, from West Papua, which is seeking to secede from Indonesia, to New Caledonia, which will hold a referendum next year about possibly breaking away from France.
But their success edged the country closer to a different kind of destabilization: It gave hope to many southern Yemenis who have long wanted to secede from the rest of the country and reinstate the north-south border that divided Yemen until its unification in 1990.
One sign of hope for the Remain campaign: Most polls before the September 2014 referendum on whether Scotland should secede from the United Kingdom showed that contest to be neck-and-neck, but voters broke fairly decisively — 55.3 percent to 44.7 percent — in favor of the status quo.
Sinosphere HONG KONG — The Chinese government's top lawyer in Hong Kong said on Tuesday that British colonial legislation could be used to prosecute those advocating that the territory secede from China, but he also said that mainland Chinese security agencies have no authority to detain suspects in Hong Kong.
Bosnian voters elected longtime Serbian nationalist Milorad Dodik to a national presidential post Sunday, a result likely to increase tensions between the Serb Republic of Bosnia and the international community over Dodik's close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his repeated calls for the Serbian statelet to secede from the Bosnian state.
Bank officials noted that the employees had not received similar payments in the past, and that the transactions surrounded the date of a critical referendum on whether parts of Crimea should secede from Ukraine and join Russia — one of Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy concerns and a flash point with the West.
Dinkins carried Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, while Giuliani dominated heavily white areas of Queens and depended for his margin of victory on a thumping performance in Staten Island — a place with a very suburban vibe that voted the very same day in favor of a referendum to secede from New York.
When the action thriller "Bushwick" premièred, at Sundance, during the same week as Donald Trump's Inauguration, its plot seemed like a fanciful nightmare, in a "Red Dawn" kind of way: an army of militiamen from Southern states, hoping to secede from the Union, invades the transitional Brooklyn neighborhood, bringing black helicopters and automatic weapons.
"In the wake of the presidential election, as Democrats realized that Republicans will soon control all three branches of the federal government, progressives disinclined to secede from the Union rediscovered another exit strategy: states' rights," Jeffrey Rosen, the president and chief executive of the National Constitution Center, wrote in December, 2016 in a New York Times opinion.
READ: Black man faces felony charge after defending himself against neo-Nazis Harold Ray Crews, a lawyer based near Kernersville, North Carolina, moonlights as the chairman of his state's chapter of the League of the South, a neo-Confederate network that wants the South to secede from the rest of the U.S. and establish an "Anglo-Celtic" majority.
The leaders of Calexit have announced a new version of their plot to create an independent California: All federal lands in California will be returned to the Indian tribes, creating The co-founder of a movement calling for California to secede from America -- after giving away nearly half the state to form an "autonomous Native American nation" -- suggested Wednesday that Massachusetts Sen.
At a time of tribalism and polarization, culminating in threats by the states to nullify federal laws and secede from the Union, Marshall's central idea, shared with his Federalist heroes George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, was that "we the people" of the United States as a whole are sovereign and united, as opposed to "we the people" of the individual states.
Almost immediately, the white citizens of the state, more so than the white students who actually attended the college, clung to it as a sign that even in the most liberal bubble North Carolina had to offer, the state's history as the final one to secede from the Union and fight on the side of slavery would not be forgotten.
In 2009, the small territory, which was formerly part of the Comoros Islands, voted in a referendum to secede from its geographic neighbors, but it would take another five years for the territory of roughly 212,000 people to officially become an "integral territory" of the EU. Titled "Kwassa Kwassa" (63), the video is the most emotionally powerful of the sixth Marrakech Biennale.
How white supremacists got the black man they brutally beat charged with felony How white supremacists got the black man they brutally beat charged with felony Harold Ray Crews, a lawyer based near Kernersville, North Carolina, moonlights as the chairman of his state's chapter of the League of the South, a neo-Confederate network that wants the South to secede from the rest of the U.S. and establish an "Anglo-Celtic" majority.
As Ta-Nehisi Coates noted in the Atlantic, South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union, said in its official statement that it saw any attempts to abolish slavery and grant rights to black Americans as "hostile to the South" and "destructive of its beliefs and safety": A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.

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