(Does anyone recall the proposals floating around during the dot-com boom for northern California, Oregon and Washington state to unite with British Columbia, all parties cutting loose Washington DC, the Bible Belt, Quebec and other such liabilities and making a new manifest destiny out of dot-com stock options?)
WA has been pushing to cede from the rest of Australia for years. Charles Court nearly busted a gut trying to get the thing going.
Ahem.
Sure, 40% of yanks want to annex Canada. But 60% of them believe Canada already is a US State :)
What, Cascadia? http://zapatopi.net/cascadia.html