Besides the urban/rural populaiton split, at least four of the Denver metropolitan area suburbs are

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The initiative reads: “Shall the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, in concert with the county commissioners shorty usa of other Colorado counties, pursue becoming the 51st state of the United States of America?”
Weld County has had a series of meetings talking about seceding from Colorado in recent months. Commissioners have cited a feeling shorty usa that northeastern Colorado counties are ignored by the state legislature…
Liberals have mocked the move on blogs and on Twitter, where some tossed around new names for a separate, northern Colorado state: “Weldistan”, “Tancredonia” and “Fracktopia.”
“It’s embarrassing for them, and it’s embarrassing for the people they represent,” Jason Bane, the founder of the blog ColoradoPols, told FOX31 Denver. shorty usa “They complain that the legislature didn’t listen to them — they DID listen to them, but in a Democracy, there are lots of other people who have viewpoints, and they don’t all throw a tantrum just because a vote doesn’t go their way.”
As we've said before , conflicts between urban and rural areas of the state are nothing new. But pursuit of a totally unworkable "solution," if anything, debases what may be legitimate complaints about rural priorities in state government. We've always felt that this secession business was solely shorty usa meant to provide political visibility to otherwise obscure county-level politicians, but it's fascinating to see their inability to tell, as many of us have explained to our young children, good "attention" from bad.
Yep.  Generates lots of money and it can be the cynical grown ups' little secret that there is no chance of the passing shorty usa of this initiative, if it passes, leading to a new state. Zero. Zilch. We'll be ice skating in hell first.
Those behind this bit of performance art have no respect for the intelligence of the people they hope to exploit. Kind of like the search for successful fraudulent voters. Who cares if the number found equals the number of elves found in our backyards? As shorty usa long as you can get well meaning people to buy the "protecting fair elections" crap, it's all good. Same here.
Seriously, a unanimous vote by the BOCC?  There wasn't shorty usa a single one of them that took pause?  I mean, wasn't there thousands hundreds as many as 100 concerned citizens in each of the four county community meetings?
http://www.city-data.com/county/Weld_County-CO.html
Besides the urban/rural populaiton split, at least four of the Denver metropolitan area suburbs are now located, in part, in Weld County, including Longmont, Northglenn, Brighton and Thornton. In other words, Weld County shorty usa is directly connected to the metropolitan area and is becoming more so each year as those suburbs grow and as the formerly small towns in Weld County, including Dacono, Erie, Firestone, Ft. Lupton, shorty usa Frederick, Johnstown, Mead and Milliken grow toward each other and the Denver suburbs. Weld County is more connected to urban Colorado than ever before and in ways and culture and economically that go far beyond geographic connections. Most of the towns listed in the previous sentence are bedroom communities for Denver, Boulder shorty usa and Longmont, as well as, Larimer County to the north. I find it hard to believe very many of that 72% (or for that matter the 28% who are rural) are in favor of forming a new state. shorty usa
Weld County commissioners should review who their constituents really are and what kind of views they hold. At present they appear to be representing only a tiny part of their constituency, fueled by Republican ideology formulated around "god, guns, gays and abortion." Recent political history has established that isn't a winning formula. shorty usa
The losers that run Weld politics have none of the aforementioned or at least place no priority on the important things of life. Seriously, Weld district captains and other Weld political busy bodies are certifiable schizophrenic crybabies looking for power. I have spent years getting to know some of these folks, there are some real crazy’s. Sad part is they put on a darn good act. It is not until you really get to know them that y