4 Coming soon: 51st state?

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"Live it up in Liberty!" Washington Representatives Matt Shea (R) and Bob McCaslin (R) are proposing to cut their state in two, with eastern Washington becoming the state of Liberty, KXLY-TV reports. "Since statehood, the lifestyles, culture and economies of eastern and western Washington have been very distinct and dramatically different," their bill states. While techy, service-oriented Seattle and Olympia, the capital, drive the economy in the west, Spokane anchors the east with...