Coastal Restoration

Secessionist movements are all the rage these days. A handful of counties in Colorado tried to secede from the rest of the state earlier this year.  There's an attempt to create the State of Jefferson (northern California/southern Oregon) via ballot initiative in 2014.  And there's plenty more.  Most recently (October of 2013) a millionaire Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist proposed splitting California into six states (note that the map here was produced with proposals up until the end of 2011 only).  Apparently because the tech/Libertarian folks seem to dislike government regulation…except when it comes to things like enforcing their patents, protecting their intellectual property, their IPOs, etc. (but I digress).

It is interesting to note that the coastal states on the eastern seaboard are more or less stable.  But the western and Gulf of Mexico states shift quite a bit, particularly in the coastal zone proper.  Only the interior west of the U.S. has such a concentration of changed boundaries.

It is also interesting to note that there are apparently several folks interested in annexing the land of our friends in Mexico, but no one has proposed annexing Canadian territory.  What ever could be behind that?