<P> The Philippine statehood movement had a significant impact during the early American colonial period . It is no longer a mainstream movement, but is a small social movement that gains interest and talk in that nation . </P> <P> There exist several proposals to divide states with regions that are politically or culturally divergent into smaller, more homogeneous, administratively efficient entities . Splitting a state requires the approval of both its legislature and the U.S. Congress . </P> <P> Proposals of new states by partition include: </P> <Ul> <Li> Arizona: The secession of Pima County in Arizona, with the hopes of neighboring counties Cochise, Yuma, and Santa Cruz joining to form a state . </Li> <Li> California and Oregon: <Ul> <Li> The secession of Northern California and Southern Oregon to form a state named Jefferson . </Li> <Li> Various proposals of partition and secession in California, usually splitting the south half from the north or the urban coastline from the rest of the state . In 2014, businessperson Tim Draper collected signatures for a petition to split California into six different states, but not enough to qualify for the ballot . A follow - up petition to split into three states is underway for 2018 . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Colorado: In 2013, commissioners in Weld County, Colorado announced a proposal to leave Colorado along with neighboring counties, and form the state of North Colorado . The counties in contention voted to begin plans for secession that November, with mixed results . </Li> <Li> Delaware, Maryland and Virginia: The secession of several counties from the eastern shores of Maryland and Virginia, combining with some or all of the state of Delaware, forming a state named Delmarva . </Li> <Li> Florida: The secession of South Florida and the Greater Miami area to form a state named South Florida . The region has a population of over 7 million, comprising 41% of Florida's population . </Li> <Li> Illinois: <Ul> <Li> The secession of Cook County, which contains Chicago, from Illinois to form a separate state, proposed by residents of the more Republican Downstate Illinois to free it from the political influence of the heavily Democratic Chicago area . </Li> <Li> The secession of Southern Illinois from the rest of the state, south of Springfield, with the capital in Mt . Vernon . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Maryland: The secession of five counties on the western side of the state due to political differences with the more liberal central part of the state . </Li> <Li> Michigan: The secession of the geographically separate and culturally distinct Upper Peninsula of Michigan from the Lower Peninsula, as a state called Superior . </Li> <Li> New York: Various proposals partitioning New York into separate states, all of which involve to some degree the separation of New York City from the rest of the state </Li> <Li> Texas: Under the resolution by which the Republic of Texas was admitted to the Union and the state constitution, it has the right to divide itself into up to five states . There were a significant number of Texans who supported dividing the state in its early decades, called divisionists . Current Texas politics and self - image make any tampering with Texas' status as the largest state by land area in the contiguous United States unlikely . </Li> <Li> Washington: Dividing the state into Western Washington and Eastern Washington via the Cascade Mountains . Suggested names include East Washington, Lincoln, and Cascadia . </Li> <Li> The National Movement for the Establishment of a 49th State, founded by Oscar Brown, Sr. and Bradley Cyrus, and active in Chicago between 1934 and 1937, had the aim of forming an African American state in the South . </Li> </Ul>

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