State and National Secession Attempts
Further information: List of extinct states and Unrecognized historic regions of the United States- Westsylvania (1776)
- Green Mountain Boys (1777–91) (Vermont voluntarily entered the Union in 1791)
- State of Franklin (1784–90)
- Republic of West Florida (1810)
- Republic of Indian Stream (1832–42)
- Free City of Tri-Insula (1861)
- Confederate States of America (1861–65)
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“The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother’s side!”
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“There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; anything that is national is not scientific.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)