Secession movements in places like eastern Oregon continue to make headlines today, but back in the 1990s, parts of western Kansas made an effort to secede that previewed the political divisions that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fire exit door with an EXIT sign featuring a cowboy. It is a telling and quirk of linguistic sociology that it took a bloody civil ...

A movement advocating for Texas to secede from the US is gaining attention. The movement's de facto leader told BI that Texans are "sick and tired of being crushed." Critics argue that secession is ...

Residents of Oregon are considering secession over an "east-west" political divide as many believe the state is no longer "unified" and are frustrated that the liberal politics of the west are held ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new candidate for sheriff in Texas has pledged to support the state's ...

Tired of your state politics? These residents are looking to secession as the solution. A sign in Prineville, Oregon, urges voters to support a secession effort to move Oregon's border west so that ...

There's a big race right now to become the 51st state. Forget traditional contenders like Puerto Rico. In several existing states, residents of less populous areas are hoping to create new states of ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A break-away movement in far Northern California apparently sounded better in theory than in reality to voters in Tuesday’s primary. Residents of rural, sparsely populated ...

A movement calling for Texas to leave the US and become its own country is growing louder. Daniel Miller, a sixth-generation Texan, is the de facto face of the modern Texas Nationalist Movement, ...