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I don't think you'd find very many people who would support breaking up the United States -- at least in the United States. There might be support for breaking some of the states in the US into smaller entities, particularly on the West Coast.

But we have a pretty strong national culture, despite our local differences and our shared and troubled history.

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Although the number of people involved is relatively low, there are some loud voices in various parts of the US that would like to secede.

Hawaii - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_sovereignty_movement

Texas - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements

Alaska - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Independence_Party

There's a movement where I'm from that wants the Pacific Northwest states plus British Columbia to split off into a country called Cascadia. Barring some terrible disaster, I highly doubt that's ever going to happen in the near future.

Maybe in some distant future where things are very different, but it's not realistic right now.

Culturally there is actually a great similarity between Scotland and much of England. One of the weaknesses of the No campaign in my view is that they've failed to draw on the massive similarities between Scotland the the industrial north of England.

The differences between London and Scotland are significant, but the same differences exist between London and much of the North of England.

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