In grade school history class, we all learned about the Confederacy seceding from the US during the Civil War. But did you know about the Absaroka secessionist movement of 1939? How about Forgottonia, where western Illinoisans were upset about not getting an interstate highway? Or the latest movement, Baja Arizona?
Urban Mapping has assembled an interactive map of 29 American secessionist movements that have bubbled up since colonial times.
In addition to the Confederacy and Forgottonia, I had only heard of the Jefferson and South Jersey secessionist movements. My father was a card-carrying member of the latter movement in the early 1980's. I think he still has the t-shirt.
Cool map, except for one glaring omission...Where's Cascadia?!
Check it out:
http://demo.urbanmapping.com/map-gallery/secessionist-movements/
Cool stuff! I never heard of most of these, but they're all very interesting.
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