{"id":12144,"date":"2011-11-23T18:13:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T23:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12144"},"modified":"2011-11-23T18:13:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T23:13:22","slug":"county-level-secession-movements-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12144\/county-level-secession-movements-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"County-Level Secession Movements Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know political differences are coming to a head when state and local leaders takes step \u2013 albeit unrealistic \u2013 to break away from misbehaving neighbors.\u00a0 Earlier this year liberal Pima County made noise about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxphoenix.com\/dpp\/news\/politics\/state_politics\/group-wants-pima-county-to-secede-from-arizona-02242011\" target=\"_blank\">seceding from Arizona<\/a>.\u00a0 A county official in conservative Inland California called for meetings to <a href=\"http:\/\/inlandpolitics.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/ocregister-%E2%80%98south-california%E2%80%99-secession-effort-recedes\/\" target=\"_blank\">legally distance themselves from spendthrift Sacramento<\/a> and the loony Left Coast.\u00a0 Now, two Republican state lawmakers in Illinois have introduced a bill to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sj-r.com\/breaking\/x1431167324\/2-GOP-legislators-propose-separating-Cook-County-from-Illinois\" target=\"_blank\">divide Illinois into two states<\/a>: liberal Cook County (home of Chicago), and the other 101 municipalities.\u00a0 Claiming that \u201cChicago-style politics\u201d are dominating all other concerns in the state, the GOP legislators want to part ways and limit the influence of Second City Mayor Rahm Emanuel to a smaller geographic area.<\/p>\n<p>Will any of these ideas work?\u00a0 Almost certainly not.\u00a0 But the popularity of political separation just underscores how divided America is becoming.\u00a0 That we\u2019re still together is something to be thankful for, if not an occasion for perpetual rejoicing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know political differences are coming to a head when state and local leaders takes step \u2013 albeit unrealistic \u2013 to break away from misbehaving neighbors.\u00a0 Earlier this year liberal Pima County made noise about seceding from Arizona.\u00a0 A county official in conservative Inland California called for meetings to legally distance themselves from spendthrift Sacramento [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[846,299,229,2865],"class_list":["post-12144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arizona","tag-california","tag-chicago","tag-secession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12148,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions\/12148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}