NOW UP ON SSRN: My new paper, Splitsylvania: State Secession and What to Do About It, looks at internal state secession movements (e.g., the move to separate the rural eastern counties of California into “New California”) and offers some suggestions. The introduction, I think, could be the outline of a Kurt Schlichter novel. . .

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UPDATE: From the comments: “So the solution short of revolution is for our elected representatives to show some humility and to act in a statesmanlike manner? To quote a great man: The chances of that are vanishingly small.” That is the flaw in my approach.