Secession
Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization or union, used particularly in the case of the Southern states of the United States seceding prior to the American Civil War. A "reverse" secession of sorts happened at this time when the northwestern counties of Virginia seceded to form the state of Kanawha (now West Virginia), in order to remain in the Union.
More local examples of secession also exist, such as Piedmont, California, which was part of Oakland before seceding from the latter in 1907, and the ultimately abandoned movement among residents of Staten Island to break away from New York City, which attracted much attention in the 1980s and early 1990s.
There have been modern secessionist movements in the United States. One, called Cascadia, and another in reference to the creation of a more secularized American government, to be run by Atheists.
See also: Declaration of independence, Separatism, Nullification, South Carolina Exposition and Protest, Reference re Secession of Quebec
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