What we really need to do is let NY and New England go. The malcontents in PA would probably move there in order to take advantage of the opportunity to seccede anyway, and everyone would be happy.
Actually Boston has existed as a separate city-state all its own for a long time now.
Ask anyone who works on Beacon Hill, and they don't even know the names of the towns more than 15 miles beyond the city limits.
"What we really need to do is let NY and New England go."
We can't let them go. We need their syrup.
And would Dick Clark spend New Year's Eve
in a foreign country?
And what about California?
Better yet, have the Old Glory-waving Southern states conquer them and then impose Reconstruction on them.
What goes around, comes around.