GOOD Magazine: Vermont: Most Likely To Secede? - Living on The Huffington Post: "On October 3, 2007, delegates to the second North American Secessionist Convention met for two days in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to discuss how to crack the United States into manageable parts. They came representing 11 rebel groups in 36 states, under banners such as the Republic of Cascadia (wedding Oregon and Washington), Independent California (forging the world's fifth-largest economy), the United Republic of Texas (returning the Lone Star State to its lonesomeness), the League of the South (uniting the states of old Dixie), and, spearhead of the effort, the Second Vermont Republic (separating Vermont from the United States). The dominant thought among the delegates was that what they call 'the U.S. experiment' had failed."
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I guess the CID secessionist movement that hasn't appeared yet will have to get in line behind these wood-chopping, granola-eating, geriatric hippies. I interviewed some of these folks years ago for a project that never got off the ground. There are lots of them living in the woods in owner-built homes built around big trees and over streams. I gather that their kids grew up in the woods herding goats and have since joined the Taliban, but other than that it has been a glorious social experiment.