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 ...

It is a telling and quirk of linguistic sociology that it took a bloody civil war to convince the bulk of Americans to shift from referring to the United States as a singular, rather than plural, ...

The Texas Nationalist Movement has long dreamed about winning Lone Star independence. And, earlier this month, movement members celebrated a move that they believe will help make that dream a reality.

More than 30 years ago, a group of southwest Kansas counties tried to secede and form their own state called West Kansas. It’s largely forgotten now, but the political divisions that caused it remain.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A secession plan known as the “Greater Idaho Movement” is gaining momentum in Oregon as some residents feel they no longer belong in the liberal-run state and would be better served by their neighbor ...

CALGARY — My father, a native of the small coastal town of Kanya Kumari deep in southern India, wanted to come to Canada — not the U.S. — to pursue his higher studies. He arrived in 1968 to complete ...