Newly elected West Virginia legislator Larry Kump, a Republican from Falling Waters and a Frostburg State University alum, wants a vote on whether his state's three easternmost counties should secede and join Virginia instead.
"West Virginia has abundant talent and natural resources, but our state government policies stifles [sic] our prosperity and freedom," Kump says on his political blog, Working Together to Stay Independent.
Maryland borders those counties, too, so why not secede to join Maryland? Maryland is presumably less attractive from Kump's perspective because in Maryland, as in West Virginia, the governor's mansion and the two houses of the legislature are controlled by Democrats. In Virginia, Republicans control the governor's mansion and the House, while only the Senate is controlled by Democrats.
Do Virginians get a vote on this?
Kump's personal blog, where he tells jokes and writes about his Mormon faith, is titled True Stuff that I Made Up.
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