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.
The President could place the area under brutal martial law, provoking the locals to rebel and secede from the Union.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.
The President could place the area under brutal martial law, provoking the locals to rebel and secede from the Union.
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.