Tornado Alley (PROG)

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arizona1 -- his "independent nation" secedes from the U.S.?

not gonna get any such arrangement voluntarily and validly approved/ratified by the U.S. -- at least not short of an insurrection against and military victory over the U.S.

"The island park served as a staging ground by the U.S. military during World War II for a re-enactment of a Pacific island invasion by the Navy and Marine Corps. The island was temporarily renamed Bella Jima, and Detroiters were treated to the sight of an island invasion without the bloodshed. It was conducted after the invasion of Iwo Jima."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Isle_Park

good luck with that