[mewzilla]

Hmmmm, if the red bits of PA went with VA it would make it easier to include Upstate NY’s red counties....

WV, with the best bits of VA, PA, NY, and MD...whoa.

[Publius]

At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Alexander Hamilton threw out a lot of ideas at dinners at various taverns with his fellow delegates. He did this to gauge reactions before he tried out the ideas at the Convention itself.

One idea he threw out at dinner was to dissolve the existing 13 states and permit the counties to organize themselves into new states. The final result might be 5 states or 25 states. His plan called for the president to appoint the governors of the states, thus making the states administrative subdivisions of the federal government.

The basis of Hamilton's trial balloon was to forge a consolidated nation. The people on whom Hamilton tried this idea didn't take to it at all.

But part of his idea may make sense today. Perhaps counties should be free to change states. Socialists could gather in their states and patriots in theirs.