'Has secession ever succeeded?' Massie asked on Twitter Thursday.
to ponder the issue of secession on Thursday while recent polls indicate growing support for the U.S. breaking up along ideological lines.supported states seceding from the U.S. for political reasons. Massie broached the topic in a tweet using the Civil War example of West Virginia joining the Union by breaking away from Confederate Virginia. The Kentucky Republican recalled that one of his Massachusetts Institute of Technology classmates had been unaware that West Virginia was a state.
"Has secession ever succeeded?" asked Massie."One of my freshmen classmates at MIT didn't know West Virginia was a state - he thought it was just a region of Virginia. Most people know it's a state, but few know it seceded from VA. It's a story that's not often told."One of my freshmen classmates at MIT didn’t know West Virginia was a state - he thought it was just a region of Virginia.
However, secession more commonly refers to states breaking away from the U.S. as a whole rather than separating from other states, a process sometimes referred to as partitioning. The only historical example of secession from the U.S. was ultimately a failure, given that the 11 states that broke away to form the Confederacy were decisively defeated by the Union at the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865.
No other states have successfully broken away from the federal government, although Texas broke away from Mexico in 1836 as the Republic of Texas before being admitted as a U.S. state in 1845. Many failed proposals for states or cities to secede from the U.S. or to partition existing states have been put forward over the years. Polling indicates that the
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