Northwest Angle Referendum

What would you do with the Northwest Angle?

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It's far too small, both in population and size, to be a state, much less a republic. From a practical standpoint, it should have gone to Canada.
 

Dorozhand

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It's far too small, both in population and size, to be a state, much less a republic. From a practical standpoint, it should have gone to Canada.

As for the independence idea, I was picturing a kind of Andorra-like construction supported by both countries. It seems kinda cool.
 
Canada or independent. As a war with the US seems in the making I hope that's one of our demands.
 
I really don't know much about the area, but aren't the people living there predominantly Native American? Would either the US or Canada want an independent republic populated thus?
 

Dorozhand

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I really don't know much about the area, but aren't the people living there predominantly Native American? Would either the US or Canada want an independent republic populated thus?

To me that makes it even more awesome, and the US and Canada probably wouldn't care about its ethnicity.
 
You should probably have defined what the Northwest Angle is, instead of forcing people to look it up on wikipedia.
 
I really don't know much about the area, but aren't the people living there predominantly Native American? Would either the US or Canada want an independent republic populated thus?

United States Census Bureau said:
The racial makeup of the township was 99.34% White. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.66% of the population.

A large portion of the Northwest Angle is part of a larger Indian Reservation, but I don't think anyone lives in that specific part.
 
Make it an independent Empire and allow the hoards of fishermen wade out to gather more land for the Motherland of the Angle. :D
 
Not one inch of sacred Minnesotan soil shall be surrendered! :p

But, there's seriously no way anything other than it being part of Canada or the US would be feasible. There's seriously less than 200 people living there and no geopolitical or social reason why it would need to be something other than part of a state/province of a bigger country.

Sorry for the suffering I have caused in making you open a new tab and type a name in a search box.

Most people, when they make threads asking about relatively obscure terms, places, or events, provide links to explain what they're asking about so that people can just pop in, click the link, read a bit & then respond with something other than "what's X?".

Plus, there are mobile users, and while I'm not sure, I'm pretty sure that it's easier for them to just click a link, read a bit & go back to the thread rather than go to Wikipedia themselves, then re-navigate back to the thread.
 
Most people, when they make threads asking about relatively obscure terms, places, or events, provide links to explain what they're asking about so that people can just pop in, click the link, read a bit & then respond with something other than "what's X?".

Plus, there are mobile users, and while I'm not sure, I'm pretty sure that it's easier for them to just click a link, read a bit & go back to the thread rather than go to Wikipedia themselves, then re-navigate back to the thread.

I live in the north west! Lancashire and Cumberland should be Independant states in a greater federal Britain.
 
A large portion of the Northwest Angle is part of a larger Indian Reservation, but I don't think anyone lives in that specific part.

Correct; but the Native American community of the larger reservation does have a say in matters: in 1998, a referendum was proposed to let the inhabitants of the the Northwest Angle choose to either join Canada or remain with the USA. The leaders of the Red Lake reservation objected quite vehemently - and succesfully.

Anyway, no-one wanted trouble, and it was all about fishing rights. After the USA agreed to amend the regulations regarding fishing, the secessionist movement evaporated and has not been seen since. Rightly so, because let's face it, there are just over 150 people living there - and none of them are particularly unhappy about being US citizens.
 
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