I want New Jersey to go for this also. Take Trenton, Camden, Atlantic City, Essex County, Passaic County and Hudson County and let them be New Jersey. Let the rest become the Garden State.
We, in the civilized Penssylvania, would dearly love to kick out Phildelphia and have them join New Jersey. We’ll take the decent part of your state in exchange. Then our crooked governor and your crooked governor could square off to see who becomes governor of New New Jersey and New Pennsylvania can elect somebody decent.
When I was a kid there was serious talk about breaking out the Delaware Valley...South Jersey, Philly, Wilmington and the rest of DE. As much as the folks I knew resented North Jersey there was no way they wanted to be tied to Philly so it never went anywhere.