Western Maryland leaving Maryland?

[Ungermc]

There is an initiative being pushed by some, for Five Western Maryland Counties to leave Maryland and possibly form a new self governing State...

Here's the Facebook page for the initiative:

https://www.facebook.com/FreeWesternMaryland

Possible or perhaps Western Maryland joining with WV, PA, etc.?

 

[MagnumFarce]

This may be fun to think about, but keep in mind that it will never EVER happen. This has been talked about off and on for years and years and years on the Eastern Shore -- there is zero chance of it happening.

 

[CCPatriot]

Just a tease. It would be nice and I would get involved if there was a chance of this coming to fruition

 

[Ungermc]

Same here, It a pipe dream...but if anyone ever manages to make any progress, I'd be there to throw in with the effort...

 

[Mike OTDP]

I've got a better idea...why not throw the I-95 axis out of Maryland?

 

[EarnestT]

It will never happen but I wish it would

 

[RavensFan11]

Would be an interesting development if it ever happened...I would make the move west!

 

[rwbow1969]

It will never happen, if the people of Western Maryland don't make their voices heard. I've been trying to find out all of the logistics involved with this. I'm also trying to find a way to contact the guy who brought this up and find out what needs done to actually make a go of this.

Yes, I it may be a waste of time but, if you don't try you'll never know what the result could have been. Nothing is easy in this world.

 

[SteveFinMD]

Too bad a simple vote couldn't do it.

 

[Bean Guy]

Since I'm from Carroll County, I'm in(or out as the case would be). There was an article in the Carroll County times the other day about this, said that this would require the approval of the Maryland legislature. So two chances, fat and none.

 

[JPG]

It would be easier to get MoCo, Baltimore City, PG County, DC, and Howard County to be a State. This allows DC to be part of a state.

 

[C-130_MAC]

How about we sell "West MD" to the highest bidder state - give the cash to the greedy side of MD to let us go (MD Gov. would go for that - if it went in their pockets)

 

[EL1227]

Why not ?

Northern Colorado is moving forward ...

WashingtonTimes.com -
Rural Coloradans to vote on breaking away as 51st state, angered by liberal policies on guns, energy

Succession in MD was a topic of discussion on WMAL. They mentioned that SoMD also wanted to be part of WestMD ... and the Eastern Shore. Surround and conquer ?

The Podcast should be available tomorrow.

 

[Ab_Normal]

Since I'm from Carroll County, I'm in(or out as the case would be). There was an article in the Carroll County times the other day about this, said that this would require the approval of the Maryland legislature. So two chances, fat and none.

Think again.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

 

[surplusfan]

If that happened Id move back to my ancestral homeland of Allegheny County. For now Im in PA....

 

[Kbroc2]

Please take me with you west md

 

[ultraplanet]

Garrett Co has always been more closely connected to Pittsburgh and Morgantown than Baltimore or DC anyway. Just makes sense to stick with that.

 

[briwayjones]

It doesn't seem like to me this solves any problem. If any of these areas were to break off and form their own states what's to stop them from going progressive in the future and how long before they go progressive. It seems to me we need to take back the states we already have. Some how!

 

[Haides]

Remember, forming a new state would give them a chance to write their own state constitution... Imagine the wonderful things we could include if we wrote a state constitution...

 

[deMontjoie]

Can southern MD get in on this deal too?