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There is no danger that America’s poor neighborhoods will secede from the United States.

From Slate Jul. 3, 2014

January 25, 2010 7:42 am Link Is it true that New Orleans will secede from the US and become a departement of Haiti, merely to improve its access to reconstruction aid?

From New York Times Jan. 27, 2010

But it is quite another thing for the Irish legislators to say, "Unless you do this or that, we will secede from the Union," which Ireland could not do without war and revolution.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders by Lord, John

It has been intimated here that Maryland will secede unless she secures these guarantees.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)

If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.