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The Free West Alliance (FWA) is an organization attempting to enhance liberty in the three states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, both by concentrating freedom-seekers there via immigration, and by energizing the large, existing freedom-loving populations within these states.
FWA was created shortly after the selection of the state of New Hampshire by an earlier American political migration movement, Free State Project (FSP). FWA founders were predominantly either former members of FSP who had "opted out" of New Hampshire in that organization's state selection process, or others who had in various ways associated with FSP but not signed on formally.
The reasons for the creation of FWA are many, most prominent being the dissatisfaction many westerners felt over the selection of an eastern state, for simple geographical reasons as well as for the cultural split that became evident in the Free State Project discussion forums between "westerners" and "easterners". Note, some in the "western" faction actually lived in the east, and vice versa.
Free West Alliance has also become associated to some degree with similar Canadian movements, and with the Free State Wyoming (FSW) project which in some ways predates even the Free State Project.
The Montana and Wyoming branches of FWA are the most active. Evidence of prior, small freedom migration movements to Wyoming has also turned up in discussions on the various email lists associated with FWA. Both Montana and Wyoming have well-deserved reputations for being relative havens of freedom within the United States, so informal and individual migrations there for that purpose are apparently ongoing.
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