I really hope this idea takes hold and becomes reality, even though I would be stuck in the most northern part of the "anus" ( the northern part of WC is far from blue).
What I fear is that if it does come to fruition, it will be the same old same old. Too many people are leaving the north and too many lack the motivation to make things happen. I've come to this conclusion after the last gubernatorial election, where the turn out upstate was horrible. I know there were more anti-fuac's up north than the turn out portrait. I remember seeing turnout in some counties hardly breaking 1000 votes and some below 1000.
In order to actually separate there has to be a stand off politically, a major stand off which spells out coexistence as one state is not possible.