People will be following Allen West ("we are the storm") much faster than that. Last time we had about 7 states in 4 months and just lost our momentum after that.

Warning: it won't be by secession (Texas v. White) or by continental congress of states (5th amendment). We're going to need to do it with agreements between governors and attorneys general until we can Texit all the way, which means it might not be called the Free Republic as early as this year. However, most of these governors have just enough intel on the military's Plan A to save this for Plan B or C. Pray that Plan A works.