West Viginia
West Virginia.
West Virginia
West Virginia
No, counties cannot legally secede from a state in the United States. The Constitution does not provide for counties to secede from a state.
No, a county cannot legally secede from a state.
There was no official way that a state could secede, so the question was tested by the Civil War. That war determined that a state could not secede. There is a possible exception to this, as many people believe the Constitution of the State of Vermont retains the right for that state to secede.
West Virginia
West Virginia was formed from fifty counties in Virginia that refused to secede from the United States. Virginia seceded, but West Virginia became a new state and joined the Union.
Number One. South Carolina was the first state to secede.
I believe that was West Viginia. This state separated from Virginia who joined the Confederate States. They chose not to secede but rather separated and formed a new state that became a "border state".
The last state to secede from the Union was the North Carolina.
The whole of Virginia seceded. Then the mountainous Northwestern part of the state seceded from Virginia, and declared a new state of the Union, West Virginia.