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minus-squareArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 days agoThere’s precedent for it, with West Virginia. The problem is that the way that the Senate works makes what could have been a local issue extremely national.
minus-squareChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·6 days agoJust make them like Puerto Rico where they are neither a state nor a sovereign nation.
minus-squareStern@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 days agoThat precedent comes with a big civil war shaped asterik.
There’s precedent for it, with West Virginia. The problem is that the way that the Senate works makes what could have been a local issue extremely national.
Just make them like Puerto Rico where they are neither a state nor a sovereign nation.
That precedent comes with a big civil war shaped asterik.