It's too bad that we don't have the language for this kind of discussion, because the problems are real enough and the approach is straightforward and reasonable. You run the risk of either falling into crackpot secessionism or hopelessly abstract pedantry. It is terribly difficult to speak of redressing the very real problems of a particular area through geopolitical realignment without seeming, well, provincial in your outlook. With the growth of communications technology and the increasing interweaving of large scale economic, political and environmental concerns we've heard a great deal about a developing global community. Yet, for all its intellectual appeal, the Global Village cannot be lived in like a real town.
People care about what they can see with their own eyes and understand in their hearts.
The world we walk through and work in is our real world. Beyond that daily experienced world we can have no effective allegiance, we can do no useful work, because we can only harm whatever we touch but don't understand. My ancestors had a word, heimat , which expressed it as well as it could be expressed. It includes not only the place but the land itself, the people who live there and their ways of doing things. It is a concept which is all encompassing in terms of time and ecology and culture but limited to a particular place.