"From Absaroka to Yazoo: The 124 United States That Could’ve Been"
http://andrewshears.com/2011/12/08/the-united-states-that-couldve-been/
Two would be good.
Let the coastal counties go — from LA to the Oregon border.
Hope not, then that would create at least 10 new liberal senators.
Any guesses on how many are solid blue? I’d say 4 of 6.
A Democrat delight for the Senate.
ONLY if Dems are guaranteed ten more senators for life like DiFi.
The rest of the country has been saying for YEARS now that Texas’ provision to split into 5 states for more representation in Congress is “null and void” and nothing to pursue.
Of course the West and East Coasts should monopolize the agenda in DC. What could go wrong?
Initiatives like this are just plain depressing. They never go anywhere.
Why can’t we divide the entire country into Red America and Blue city states known as ‘pits of squalor’. The libs can have their ‘diversity, multiculturalism, sexual revolution, wealth redistribution’ paradise, and the rest of us can just be normal.
The only way to make this to work for us would be to split Lassen and Modoc counties into five states and let the rest of California remain California.
That would provide ten additional GOP Senators.
Obama Claims He's Visited 57 States
Remember he wasn't allowed to go to Alaska or Hawaii and he still had one other state to visit !
What will they name them?
I’d like to suggest, from north to south:
North California
New California
Fagaragua
North Liberaland
South Liberaland
That might actually be a good thing for Conservatives. Most people don’t realize that California has some very strong conservative regions. However, these regions are gerrymandered to assure a liberal will be elected.
2012 Presidential Election, non-Hispanic White Voters:
Romney - 54%
Obama - 44%
However, in 2012, non-Hispanic whites were just 39% of California's population.
If this happens in a hurry, it is because they want to make 12 democrat senators instead of 2, and they figured out a way to ‘gerrymander’ new state borders.
I wish ILL-ANNOY would break up into at least 2 states. The non-Rahmabad area would thrive if the Republicans figured out how to lead using conservative principles.
One benefit of it is... there would go the rock-solid guarantee of 55 EVs to the democrats every single Presidential election. Two or three of those new states would likely swing red.
The thing is, they have to put the new state capitals somewhere, and the towns where they do and the counties that they're in (and maybe the adjoining counties) automatically and magically become very very pro-big government.
Given the great egos of San Franciscans, I also can't see them ever ending up at the tail end of somebody else's state, like an afterthought. Or Los Angeles somehow becoming "West California" for that matter (though the names of the new states aren't set in stone yet).
The key here will probably be to do what Alaska and Hawaii did to get statehood: partner up liberal and conservative areas. Believe it or not, Hawaii was the gop state and Alaska was the ‘rat state. They partnered to get around the realpolitik issue of changing the composition of the Senate.