NASHVILLE – Perhaps unhappy over Democratic President Barack Obama’s reelection last week, some 22,000 people have signed an online White House petition asking that Tennessee be allowed to secede from the United States.
“We petition the Obama administration to: Peacefully grant the State of Tennessee to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government,” says the petition filed with the White House’s “We the People” program.
The Huffington Post reported earlier today that residents in more than 30 states had filed secession petitions with the “We the People” program on the White House website.
Meanwhile, others jumped in with their own petitions seeking to strip the citizenship and “exile” the would-be secessionists.
It takes 25,000 signatures for a petition of any type to meet a signature “threshold,” according to the White House website. If a petition meets the threshold, then “it will be reviewed by the Administration and we will issue a response,” the White House website says.