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As a naive idiot not born in the US who has seen the weirdest separatist movements in Europe (not only a Bavarian one, a Franconian one [Franconia being a historical kingdom, now a collection of counties within Bavaria]), I'm constantly amazed the US doesn't have more separatist movements.

Texas and California strike me as the sorts of states to one day just say "You know, fuck all y'all".

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Texas and California are both extremely powerful in national politics. Neither has an incentive to give that influence up just to play at being a separatist.

We had a separatist movement, it was called the Civil War, and did not end well for the separatists. US states do not have any legal mechanism to exit the union, although Texas claims it has that right.

We do have a lot of nut jobs, particularly in low population rural states like Idaho, and they have ideas. One idea is to split off parts of California and Oregon into the state of Jefferson. Another was to split California into 6 states. All of these schemes just happen to give conservatives more power in the Senate, and are unlikely to ever happen.

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