Updated 4:17 p.m.
In more than 40 states across the nation, signatures are being gathered asking President Obama to allow states to consider seceding from the union, according to press reports over the weekend.
The states, ranging from blue states like New York and New Jersey to some of the reddest of the red, such as North Dakota and Texas, must collect 25,000 signatures within 30 days to receive an official response from the White House. Texas already has more than 25,000, according to reports.
On Nov. 11, just five days after President Obama was re-elected to the White House, the movement officially came to California and now has 6,832 signatures and growing.
The petition was started by Jennifer K. from Yucca Valley.
However, California's movement has not seen the fervor of some other states, such as New Hampshire, where the creator has launched a Facebook campaign.
There is a California Secession Facebook page, which recently received a post linking to the online petition after almost one year of inactivity.
Last year, about a dozen counties in the eastern and southern parts of Southern California, minus Los Angeles, tried to secede from the state to form "Southern California."
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone's reasons for secession included "too much money spent on state prisons, too much power for public unions, too many regulations and not enough of a crackdown on illegal immigration," according to the New York Times.
In response to these and other secession petitions, Joshua L. from Birmingham, AL, started a petition to deport everyone that signed a petition to withdraw their state from the nation.
It currently has over 8,300 signatures, a few hundred more than the petition for California to secede from the US.
What do you think about this secession petition? Do you think it will receive 25,000 signatures by Dec. 11? Tell us in the comments.
This hits the nail squarely on the head. The petition outburst represents millions of Americans sending a message to the socialist Democrats: we don’t want to fight you, argue with you, try to persuade you or campaign against you. We wish to be free of you and never think of you again.
When the USSR collapsed in the early 90s, its vassal states inside and outside of it declared their independence and the Kremlin was powerless to prevent it.
Or Born to Lose. But it's more like the White Rabbit song around here. These hokkah smoking caterpillars have gone off the deep end.
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The moment Lincoln was elected in November 1860, slave states moved from talk to action toward secession. If you think anyone but a white supremacist would claim they would leave the Union because Lincoln was planning on raising taxes is delusional. As to your issue #1, you do know, don't you, the particular "agricultural industry" to which you refer was growing cotton, and wholly dependent on SLAVE LABOR. As to your issue #2, you do know, don't you, that the South's "ability to trade with Europe" was solely about their ability to SELL COTTON grown with SLAVE LABOR. That slave owners were able to get other white southerners, and even black servants in some cases, to fight for the Confederacy when more than 90% of rebel troops had not a single slave themselves doesn't make them "freedom fighter's." By definition, it is impossible to be for both freedom and slavery. Prior to that time, whites in power simply bypassed reality by defining slaves as not quite human, only 3/5 human. Today's white supremacists operate on that same notion. That non-slave-owning whites would die to protect slavery is an indicator how totally ingrained the separation of the races, separate and unequal, with white supremacy , was in the southern psyche of the time. Then "separate but equal" was attempted in this century, etc.
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The only thing left in California will be sunshine and Grifters.
Can we get our Patch back from the crazies from the Inland Empire now?