It is time for someone to request the denouement. Excuse my French.
When the LEFTY states secede in terror at the right-wing congress of 2023, who gets to leave?
ILL, MICH, Maryland and everything North of Baltimore. This is not contiguous ... Blackelk might sue, They may want a strip from CHICAGO to Buffalo to tie it together. Blackelk can move across the border to WISC and coordiate border raids into Cook County. Upstate NY will object as will the rural rebels in NH and ME.
Lefty-Illinois will not allow Southern ILL to be usurped.
We came very close with the Quebec deal. The western provinces would have been a constitutional enclave. A cold enclave, but worthwhile in the summer months.
Similarly, take Detroit and Wayne County out of Michigan and float them north to Windsor, Canada and fight any attempt to send them back.
That should convert Illinois and Michigan into permanent conservative states. Presto!: Mark Nancyboy Kirk becomes Canadian along with Jesse Jackson, Jr., and the Chicago Congressional delegation and Robert Dolt. No more worries about Granholm, Senator Stabenow and and Senator Levin. I gather you want to keep Maryland north of Baltimore. Baltimore has a harbor and can be contiguous to all or parts of Maryland south of Baltimore. Turn over to Canada those parts of Vermont not known as The Northeast Kingdom. Say goodbye to Leahy and Bernie Sanders. Annex a southern sliver of Vermont to New Hampshire to make a contiguous land connection to Appleknocker territory in Upstate New York, thence to Ohio and Indiana. Indiana remains connected to the remainder of Illinois. Keep the rest of the country to the West Coast but float Seattle, San Fransicko, Oakland, Berserkely, Los Angeles and so much of Oregon as necessary to include Portland and also the worst of college towns in California, Oregon and Washington out into the Pacific. Remove Houston and New Orleans floating them out to the Gulf of Mexico. Cleveland, Gary, Indiana and Buffalo can be floated away as well. We would gladly take the Western Prairie Provinces of Canada as well. In that event, we will need a border wall and strong defensive weaponry to separate us from the remainder which will then be known as Soviet Canada.
BTW, the largely rural Northwestern Illinois Congressional District (16th) in which I live is more reliably Republican and conservative than any other in Illinois and nearly any other in the nation.