Oklahoma
The remote Oklahoma Panhandle has often cited the distant state government for neglect, and support for secession as a new state has been voiced. Alternate proposals have the region merging with Texas, as the closest major city to the area is Amarillo.
Another proposal would merge Texas's Panhandle with the State of Oklahoma, since residents in that area have more in common with neighboring Oklahomans than they do with more distant Dallas, Austin and Houston.
The ongoing state secessionist movement for Eastern Oklahoma with Tulsa as its largest city and possible state capital has resurfaced at times.
A state of Sequoyah separate from the Oklahoma Territory, to consist of the lands of five Native American tribes (the Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation, Creek Nation (or Muskogees), Seminole Nation and Osage County), was proposed but rejected in favor of the state of Oklahoma in 1907.
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. State Partition Proposals
Famous quotes containing the word oklahoma:
“I know only one person who ever crossed the ocean without feeling it, either spiritually or physically.... he went from Oklahoma to France and back again ... without ever getting off dry land. He remembers several places I remember too, and several French words, but he says firmly, “We must of went different ways. I don’t rightly recollect no water, ever.””
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)