RE: big dreams for cleaving the state
OK, How’s this going to work, practically?
There has been a movement for Long Island to secede from New York State for some time, see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_(proposed_state)
Nothing ever comes out of it.
Pipe dream and it would probably backfire. They would cut the state in such a way we would end up with 2 blue states and 2 new Rat Senators and a Rat Governor.