it's not THEIR place to force an entire region to have to leave the U.S. ...

Give them the same option they gave us. Get over it, or get out.

There are also counter petitions that you can sign that strips these clods of their citizenship/right to vote!!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/petition-to-secede-states_n_2120410.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

I think I'll sign that since my state is one in which a bunch of ignorant clowns are having a melt-down temper tantrum. They'd leave the country but they're too poor and too stupid for anyone to let them in so this is what they have come up with so they won't have to evolve into 21st century beings.

on the part of these instant secessionists (who are also the instant made in China flag waving uber-patriots from the 9/11 era): I'm sure they haven't considered this but all the public lands are not going to be part of separated states since those belong to all of us and don't really belong to individual states... they will be prohibited from using them without a fee, perhaps and will be subject to passport rules etc... Those are federal lands and, I'm sure they are thinking they can live off the fruits of those lands with impunity, they would likely have to stay in their little areas of private lands that they have already trashed.

I wonder ho that would work if they got stripped of their citizenship...? If we had to guard these public lands from those secessionists, just think of all the jobs that might generate!