It may very well be that such dreams of secession for say, Hawaii or Alaska or even the South once again, may very well be just that, just dreams. But as events around the world are showing, there are ways to declare one's independence on a de facto basis, whether it is secession of the mind or culture, or creating parallel governments to rival the central authority.

In short, the state within a state.

The centralizers better get used to it.

It is the wave of the future.