County officials in 10 of Colorado's 64 counties are talking about founding “North Colorado” and are asking for formal recognition as a state. Besides feeling that they are not being heard in Washington, Republican conservative farmers and ranchers in the northeastern Colorado counties are fed up with providing Colorado’s urban liberal “city slickers” with money and not getting any valuable representation in return. An estimated 80 percent of the oil and gas revenue in Colorado comes from the group of counties that are pondering secession.
“Representatives from the 10 counties held a meeting on Monday in the town of Akron in Washington County to begin mapping the boundaries for the new state they say will represent the interests of rural Colorado,” reports CBS Denver this week.
In order to continue with the Colorado secession and to form the new 51st state “North Colorado,” approval is needed from not only voters but the Colorado General Assembly and U.S. Congress. Colorado secession organizers are hoping to put the idea to voters as early as November.
