"One nation, under God, indivisible," or is it?

With the results of last Tuesday's election came a wide variety of exultation, uncertainty, anxiety, and fear.  Many Americans found solace in the confirmation of a new direction for the country while many started to seek out new directions of their own.  Across the west coast of the United States, many dissatisfied activists began to embrace the idea of "#Calexit" (borrowed from the #brexit movement in Great Britain).  Supporters are wanting to withdraw from the United States to form their own independent republics; others would like to withdraw to join Canada.  Pretty crazy eh?

So, can this really happen?  Yes.  And No.  It is really a matter of perspective.  From the city or state level, it is certainly a possibility (just ask King George III).  A formal declaration declaration would be all that is necessary for a small area to claim their independence.  Think of Taiwan, they think of themselves as an independent nation, China disagrees.  But there are other issues of sovereignty at hand.

How would the United States Federal Government react in such a situation?  In the Texas vs. White,  the United States Supreme Court ruled that short of unanimous decision by all the other states or a revolution within the country or state, no state may leave the "indestructible union."  Again, as we have seen throughout history, this conflict of power and sovereignty (who is really in control) would ultimately have to be decided by a political or military struggle.  We do not have to look very far in the history books to see how this struggle worked out for the Confederate States of America, spoiler alert... It didn't end well for the South.

Here is to the fifty nifty!