Ten of the counties were considering forming a new state, to be called Northern Colorado, while the other would've moved towards switching to Wyoming.
The vote failed to pass in Elbert, Lincoln, Logan, Sedgwick, Moffat, and Weld counties.
However, it did pass in Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Washington, and Yuma.
Those five counties will now actively begin exploring their options and move towards an actual secession vote, to be held in the future.
Any successful secession would have to be approved by the Colorado legislature and the US Congress, making it unlikely that a fifty-first state will come out of this.
The vote does make clear how unhappy with things that those counties are.
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