Tucson Still Wants to Secede from Rest of AZ

May 10, 2011 | 2:21 PM | News | By Staff

Although we originally wrote about this in February, the whole Baja, AZ forming a 51st state thing is back in the headlines again. So let’s review this cool-concept-that’s-never-going-to-happen-in-a-million-years.

Living here in the Valley, we always considered Tucson a bit of an odd duck. (It’s called a highway system, people. Every major city has one.) However, considering our newfound love for the Old Pueblo, we were disappointed to hear we will no longer share a state with the nation’s dustiest traffic jam. At least that’s what one Tucson-based political committee is proposing.

Yes, Baja Arizona would become the 51st state in the union, if an organization named Start Our State has their way. According to the AZ Daily Star, this mostly left-leaning group (which already has a whole 577 3,427 likes on Facebook) is serious, with the co-founder saying, “I’m tired of hoping and praying that rationality will come to Phoenix.”

Ouch (and don’t hold you breath). More surprising, this would not the first time a region has seceded from its own state.

Again according to the Daily Star, Tucson’s Pima County (pictured at right) has more than 1 million residents, which is actually a bigger population than seven other states, including Montana, Vermont, the Dakotas and Wyoming. Plus, at 9,186 square miles, the county is also bigger than seven states, including Rhode Island, Connecticut and Delaware.

More important, it’s been done before: Maine was a province of Massachusetts up until 1820, while West Virginia broke away from Virginia back in 1863 after residents came down on different sides of that whole Civil War dealio.

So here’s our solution. We’ll let Tucson break away in exchange for a medium Eegee’s drink and Representative Raul Grijalva‘s mustache.

Image via KTAR

    

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3 Comments

  1. Save Our Stae
    February 25, 2011 3:20 PM

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Our-State/149259321801592

    A better solution for Tucson

  2. Cliff Armstrong
    February 28, 2011 12:11 AM

    Odd Duck? Everything is relative. I don’t think seceding (which is the correct spelling btw) from a state that continues to vomit on itself in the national spotlight is extreme in comparison to ‘your friends’ at the state capital posturing about seceding from the nation itself. I think, relatively speaking, this group in Tucson is in fact more patriotic and less extreme that what goes for government in your neck of the woods. At least we don’t fight paying taxes while we suck the rest of the country dry. I wish the Feds would take you up on your game and demand repayment for those Federally funded new highways you are so proud of and would make you pay the real cost for all of the damns, canals, and water reservoirs that have made overdeveloping your dust and pollution bowl possible. Federal waterworks projects (funded by taxes paid by other states) made this state. Not to mention that a ‘Democratic president’ started those same public works project that your opportunistic leaders vilify and now seek to undermine. What short and convenient memories your politicians have. If things weren’t already so bizarre – decent, moderate, and intelligent people wouldn’t have to consider moving out of state to maintain their integrity, much less their sanity. Baja Arizona has my vote.

Continuing the Discussion

  1. Tweets that mention Tucson Secede New State | Baja Arizona 51st State | Start Our State -- Topsy.com

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Sherry Butler, Scoop Factory. Scoop Factory said: WTF? Tuscon is attempting to secced from Arizona as "Baja Arizona" http://bit.ly/eQO7JN [...]

    February 24, 20111:57 PM
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