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Allow me to elaborate on TEd's succinct answer:
>No.
A mechanism was built into the Texas state constitution to allow rights of secession, but no other state has that (despite what's-his-name's fine efforts on Ecotopia), and there aren't any federal provisions for a state to leave once it's joined. There may well have been something in the Articles of Confederation, but I left my copy in my other pants...
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