IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: 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.

You may find the opening, in which rural California takes advantage of a financial crisis to secede and form its own state a la West Virginia, particularly interesting. Download it early and often!