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Originally Posted by troutman

There are "serious" secession movements in the US too (usually in the South).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessi..._United_States

Southern Secession: Author Challenges Americans To Consider The Possibility Of Friendly Divorce
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1772247.html

The one serious secession movement was defeated in the American Civil War. In 1860 and 1861, eleven of the fifteen southern states where slavery was legal declared their secession from the United States and joined together as the Confederate States of America. It collapsed in 1865 after losing the war with the northern states.[1]

See what happened there?