rwc
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The US Constitution makes it pretty clear - not without Congress' blessing and that just ain't gonna happen ("Vote to dilute my authorit-A?!?").I doubt Jefferson will ever happen.
Article IV, Section 3:
New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.