List of U.S. State Partition Proposals - Michigan

Michigan

  • As part of the most geographically divided of the contiguous states, Michigan's Upper Peninsula has a distinct and proud regional identity. A few have called for the Upper Peninsula, along with portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota, to become a new State (possibly named "Superior", after Lake Superior) or to secede from the United States.
  • On several occasions after the Missouri Compromise of 1820 it was proposed that, if certain territories were to enter the Union as slave states (e.g. Kansas Territory), the Upper Peninsula of Michigan would enter the Union as a Free State in order to keep a balance in representatives in the Senate.

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