AHC: Secession After 9/11

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to have at least one state secede from the United States after the attacks on 11 September 2001. Bonus points if the secession movement is successful.
 
Wow. If the POD has to be after the attack that is nearly impossible.

An attack like that produces unity, not secession.

MMM, if that Muslim island in the Philippines had become a state, I could see them leaving the union, if the war is seen as a Islam vs Christianity War.
 
Wow. If the POD has to be after the attack that is nearly impossible.

An attack like that produces unity, not secession.

MMM, if that Muslim island in the Philippines had become a state, I could see them leaving the union, if the war is seen as a Islam vs Christianity War.
The President could place the area under brutal martial law, provoking the locals to rebel and secede from the Union.
 
Terrorists have mysteriously get nuclear weapons and bomb Washington D.C. and New York.

What? What do you mean about cheating? :D
 
It could be easy to have an Alaska Independence Party Governor win. Walter Hickel won in 1990. The AIP Nominee he replaced ran as a Republican in 1998. (A more recent governor had a spouse who voted AIP before.)
If Iraq goes worse, the Second Vermont Republic campaign would look a lot better. Finally, Rick Perry has spoken about secession.
 
The global financial behemoths persuade/bribe the people of NYC to vote for secession from both state and union on the grounds that they aren't being properly protected. SAM installations become a common sight atop the skyscrapers. The city flourishes in the manner of a Singapore on steroids.
 
The global financial behemoths persuade/bribe the people of NYC to vote for secession from both state and union on the grounds that they aren't being properly protected..... The city flourishes in the manner of a Singapore on steroids.

Until the pyramid scheme collapses in 2008 ;)
 
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