How many states would we end up with?

I live in a very Democratic (in the political sense) state.  This is difficult for Republicans to handle in this state.   Especially since most of them live in the western part of the state.

So they have hatched a plan (similar to some other ideas elsewhere) to secede from Maryland and form their own western Maryland conservative enclave.

Western secessionists hatch seek to sever ties from liberal free state

Most of these plans are unlikely to secede (let alone succeede).    But I wondered how many states we'd end up with if all of the secessionist movements worked.   Probably 60 or so.  And if it worked for the conservatives, then I'd bet that some liberal enclaves in conservative states (say Denver and its suburban areas in Colorado, as an example) would want to do it too.

Shades of "The Postman".

Of course this is unlikely to happen.  But when you have gun-totin' rootin'-tootin' Tea Partyists getting ready to bear up their arms to resist an unjust Presidency (which is just about exactly what some of them have said) it isn't completely impossible.