When Donald Trump was elected, a lot of people in California signed a petition supporting the state’s secession from the U.S. But there is another secession movement in California, and elsewhere in America, that is getting genuine attention from political pundits. In recent decades, the political differences between rural areas and metropolitan areas seem to have become more severe. This has caused political splits in certain states, where, often, those rural areas, with lower populations, feel stifled by their city brethren. As Reynolds explains, “under the old system, rural areas got more representation, and under the new system they got much less.” This has helped lead to the present-day situation where rural areas feel underserved.

Source: Fox News March 19, 2018 19:15 UTC