The biggest challenge in any state would be gerrymandering the boundaries to keep the large, densely populated Democrat controlled cities from controlling any of the new states.
Even here in Texas the Democrats have taken control of the largest cities, with most of the conservatives escaping to the suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas.
I know what you mean.
City leaders even in Conservative areas seem to be shockingly Leftist in nature.
I’ve seen it in my own city.
It could be as simple as the Chamber of Commerce influence.
I think cities are infested with democrats because people who go there to live don’t want or know how to produce/provide any of the necessities of life themselves, being perfectly happy to having it all provided by someone else-I’d bet real money that about half of the people in any major city would not survive long without trucks to bring food to the store, no water coming out of the faucets, and the electrical grid down-probably would look like Venezuela...
Many of my family members still refuse to live in cities, preferring to grow food and raise livestock and own little shops instead-it makes sense to me to live where fresh food is readily available by walking out the front door, even if life is otherwise a bit hard-if everything went boom, a city would just be a place to get trapped...