You’re not a REAL sub-national political division of a North American English-speaking country unless the right wing is agitation for your succession or partition.
(See: Texas, Oregon, California, upstate NY, and probably Quebec. Not to mention a bunch of others I’m too Yankee to know and some very-old instances like Vermont that helped the USA get from 13 to 50.)
You’re not a REAL sub-national political division of a North American English-speaking country unless the right wing is agitation for your succession or partition.
(See: Texas, Oregon, California, upstate NY, and probably Quebec. Not to mention a bunch of others I’m too Yankee to know and some very-old instances like Vermont that helped the USA get from 13 to 50.)