One Of The Few Secession Successes

"The complaints of Long Islanders a decade ago sound strikingly similar to those debated in Los Angeles' secession campaigns. Residents felt they paid too much in taxes for too little in public services... In Maine, tiny Frye Island split from the town of Standish in 1998 while the even-tinier Hope Island launched a one-family effort last year. Long Island, however, reigns as one of the nation's few secession successes."