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If you think about it, the better solution is to EXPELL the NE states from Maryland to Maine, including WDC, & Kalifornia. Move the new capitol to the center of the country where it should be. That would give the US a clear conservative majority. Remaining liberal states would see the Federal payoffs to the states dry up, forcing them to either be productive & prudent, or starve.

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Under this strategy, you would probably also have to expel the entire West Coast. Those states, particularly California, are as Blue as the Northest corridor.

Washington is dominated by Seattle, but eastern WA is conservative. Can't say about Oregon, but I'll bet the attitude in Eugene doesn't describe the rest of the state.

As I said, When the federal trough dries up, liberal states will be forced to survive on their own. As it stands now, productive states are propping up welfare states. Without bribes, er, entitlements, the Liberals have nothing to offer. Without Federal money, States like Michigan & Illinois would collapse under the weight of unemployment & welfare. Their political influence will decline with their wealth. The ponzi scheme will end at the state line.

One of the beauties of our original republic was that states were free to succeed or fail on their own. This encouraged prudence & initiative for each state. Our present redistributive federal system encourages waste, mismanagement, & corruption, as it is always someone else’s money, unearned & undeserved.

Once this country is rid of HUD, HHS, IRS, income tax, etc., & tens of thousands of Federal bureaucrats, conservative states will thrive & liberal states will look like Detroit. The Liberals will starve themselves to death, enterprising conservatives will fill the void, leaving a free & wildly prosperous USA.

Under this strategy, you would probably also have to expel the entire West Coast. Those states, particularly California, are as Blue as the Northest corridor.

My thinking is that the liberal states (Red is the color of the communists, so I refuse to call them "blue".) will collapse of their own weight, and the competent states will eventually absorb them back anyway.