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The group organized a series of [[straw poll]]s that demonstrated widespread support for secession in nine counties from south-western Kansas:<ref name=Overby>{{cite journal | url=http://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-13319676/we-re-outta-here#/ | title=We're outta here! | work=[[Common Cause|Common Cause Magazine]] | date=December 1992 | last=Overby | first=Peter | number=4 | volume=18 | page=23}}</ref> [[Grant County, Kansas|Grant]], [[Haskell County, Kansas|Haskell]], [[Hodgeman County, Kansas|Hodgeman]], [[Kearny County, Kansas|Kearny]], [[Kiowa County, Kansas|Kiowa]], [[Meade County, Kansas|Meade]], [[Morton County, Kansas|Morton]], [[Stanton County, Kansas|Stanton]], and [[Stevens County, Kansas|Stevens]].<ref name=GPQ>{{cite journal|last1=McCormick|first1=Peter J.|title=The 1992 Secessionist Movement in Southwest Kansas|journal=Great Plains Quarterly|date=Fall 1995|volume=15|issue=4|pages=247-258|url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1993&context=greatplainsquarterly|accessdate=12 August 2015}}</ref> |
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On September 11, 1992, a [[Constitutional convention (political meeting)|constitutional convention]] was convened in [[Ulysses, Kansas]], at which it was decided to call the new state "West Kansas".<ref name=Kauffman /> A state bird (the [[pheasant]]), and a state flower (the [[yucca]]) were also chosen.<ref name=Overby /> |
On September 11, 1992, a [[Constitutional convention (political meeting)|constitutional convention]] was convened in [[Ulysses, Kansas]], at which it was decided to call the new state "West Kansas".<ref name=Kauffman /> A state bird (the [[pheasant]]), and a state flower (the [[yucca]]) were also chosen.<ref name=Overby /> |
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West Kansas was a proposed state of the United States, advocated by a short-lived secessionist movement in the 1990s.
Background
In May 1992, Kansas Governor Joan Finney signed into law a new school finance formula that adversely affected several south-western Kansas counties.[1] These laws raised taxes and shifted state education funding away from rural school districts and into more urban areas. In reaction to this, a group headed by Don O. Concannon advocated the secession of a number of counties from the state.
Proposals
The group organized a series of straw polls that demonstrated widespread support for secession in nine counties from south-western Kansas:[2] Grant, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny, Kiowa, Meade, Morton, Stanton, and Stevens.[1]
On September 11, 1992, a constitutional convention was convened in Ulysses, Kansas, at which it was decided to call the new state "West Kansas".[3] A state bird (the pheasant), and a state flower (the yucca) were also chosen.[2]
Result
The West Kansas secession movement ended rather quickly, and a formal petition for secession was never presented to the Kansas legislature.[1] Seventeen affected school districts filed lawsuits, but at the end of 1994, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 1992 act.[3]
Peter J. McCormick noted in 1995 that "the real differences between the southwest and the rest of Kansas remain, however, as do issues of school control and unfair taxation."[1]
References
- ^ a b c d McCormick, Peter J. (Fall 1995). "The 1992 Secessionist Movement in Southwest Kansas". Great Plains Quarterly. 15 (4): 247–258. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ a b Overby, Peter (December 1992). "We're outta here!". Common Cause Magazine. 18 (4): 23.
- ^ a b Kauffman, Bill (March 1995). "Smaller Is Beautifuller". The American Enterprise. p. 37. Archived from the original on February 14, 2007.
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