These kinds of votes would happen more often if the independent country committed to running referendums asking whether they should join the original country af

These kinds of votes would happen more often if the independent country committed to running referendums asking whether they should join the original country after they became independent. Many countries fear a referendum every twenty years with a 30% chance of resulting in independence, with these conditions, it's just a matter of time until the region becomes independent, and referendums, of course, stop happening.