Colorado
- Two counties have, in the past, proposed leaving Colorado and joining with New Mexico: the San Luis Valley in the 1950s, and Costilla County in 1973.
- In the mid-1930s, the Walsenburg World-Independent proposed that Huerfano County secede from the state. This was a pet project of Sam T. Taylor, sports editor, who went on to become a long-serving state senator where he also unsuccessfully pushed the idea.
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. State Partition Proposals
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“I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)