It's disrespectful that you deny our historical sovereignty by lumping us with somalia, the "ia" in Somalia being a foreign suffix coined by the Italians for the region they occupied from Ras casayr to Ras kambooni. I find it more funny that a lot of you speak without any knowledge of history. In the 1960 union both colonial names were dropped(Somaliland & Somalia) and the new name was "The Somali Republic" which later changed again to "The Somali Democratic Republic" during siyaad barre time. The fact that you insist the entire region including SL be called Somalia is erroneous and shows your clear bias or blatant ignorance. You choose!
Ta labaad SL had a referendum to join somalia, and thus it'll have a referendum to defect. At the time of this referendum there were only 2 states in the north Togdheer & waqooyi galbeed. Sool and sanaag were carved out of togdheer by Afweyne to give his brotherly clans a higher representation in terms of states within the north. And awdal was carved out of waqooyi galbeed. Afweyne was a genius when it came to trying to undermine Isaaq. Similar to the SFG today who lumps isaaq under to dir to limit political representation
Another funny historical fact. Although there was a referendum t
here was no act of union signed between the two Nations (SL & Somalia) therefor there wasn't even a legal union and this will be the last nail to close the coffin for good inshallah when it goes to international courts. I can't wait for somalia to get its shit together so this can take place