A lot of the things people are unhappy about are imposed from Washington, sometimes via mandates to the states. So splitting the state doesn’t get you anywhere.
The problem is Washington and the problem is a citizenry that has largely abandoned the constitution.
Good catch. I recall about 1990 the state of Virginia had some sort of a supposed budget shortfall and it announced it was going to forgo state payments to the feds for certain specifically local items. One was state stipends to the Dept. Of Agriculture for a fractional amount of the cost of having a County Agent. The uproar was enormous. I recall specifically the volume of outrage in Rockbridge County and the anger I got when i pointed out the county was easily well off enough to cover the payment. No New Jerseyites every made the ‘Wesse entitle’ snarl louder than those ‘proud individualistic’ residents of the Old Dominion.