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Serious actvists in Vermont are floating a proposal for the state to secede from the Union.

"If we had a right to join the Union, we certainly have a right to disband from it," says Thomas Naylor of the group Second Vermont Republic, as reported by the Christian Science Monitor.

Watch for this story to grow exponentially. A serious proposal for a state to secede from the U.S. is major news indeed, even if it has little chance.