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In the US, one state could theoretically split into two, but that would require a vote of the state's population and legislature and approval of the US Congress. The resulting costs of establishing one, or perhaps two, new state capitols and bureaucracies, transferring state lands and other properties, and changing and installing state highway and border markings would be substantial and the process complex and disturbing. So it is unlikely to happen except as a result of an extreme crisis such as has not been experienced since the Civil War.
Such a split has only happened twice in history. Once, as part of the Compromise of 1850, Massachusetts split into two states, Massachusetts and Maine. The second time was when the western counties of Virginia seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia during the Civil War and were admitted to the Union as the State of West Virginia.
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