These kinds of images were making the rounds a couple of years ago.
Kind
of cute. But now, at least a few people in Vermont are taking
it seriously:
href="http://www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.do?pn=oddities&articleID=2690258">Vermont
secessionist movement gains support
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
MONTPELIER,
Vt. (AP) - Disillusioned by what they call an empire about to fall, a
small cadre of writers and academics in Vermont want the state to
secede from the United States.
The secessionists hope to put the question before citizens in March.
Eventually, they want to persuade state legislators to declare
independence, returning Vermont to the status it held from 1777 to 1791.
Neither the state nor the U.S. Constitution explicitly forbids
secession but few people think it is politically viable...
...Still, the idea has found plenty of sympathetic ears in Vermont, a
left-leaning state that said yes to civil unions, no to slavery (before
any other) and last year elected a socialist to the U.S. Senate.
Supporters have published a "Green Mountain Manifesto" subtitled "Why
and How Tiny Vermont Might Help Save America From Itself by Seceding
from the Union."
In 2005, about 300 people turned out for a secession convention in the
Statehouse and plans for a second one are in the works. A poll this
year by the University of Vermont's Center for Rural Studies found 13
per cent of those surveyed support secession, up from eight per cent a
year before...
Not a huge number, but not trivial, either.
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