Eighteen states include Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
Won't be a bad start to a new republic based on the original US constitution and bill of rights.
We are a bit like the Founding Fathers trying to persuade ignorant people to support the Declaration of Independence. But once is was game on, down the road they all went. The rest is history.