How about just nuking it instead.
Along with San Francisco, Portland and Detroit.
And New York City could separate from the rest of New York; Chicago could split from Illinois; Denver could split from Colorado, etc. Politically you would end up with city states which elect Democrats only. But the leftover parts of these states would be more Republican, without having their votes diluted due to big city overwhelming rural and small town GOP votes.
Why not let NYC and philly become part of nj? Would solve all our problems. One liberal state that is already liberal anyway and two new conservative states.
Take out Chester and Upper Darby while you're at it...
Combine all the big cities ; Pilaelphia, NYC, Detroit, Chicago, LA, SF, etc ... The New State would be called, “The Pepole’s Conederation of Sanctuary”... One State... Fence them off, and have guards preventing anyone from leaving. Sort of a Berlin wall in reverse
Why not? Give Philly and it dark blue fraud machine to the Dems which gives them 3 electoral votes in exchange for turning the other 17 PA electoral votes to the GOP?
Negative on two more libtard senators in perpetuity. I would rather see New Jersey’s state line redrawn to include Philadelphia. No new senators and Pennsylvania goes red forever. Win-win.
The best thing to happen to Pennsylvania would be for a huge hurricane to come in and wipe out Philthadelpia, just like hurricane Katrina did to Chocolate City.
It would be glorious to see 200,000 democrats forced to move to Baltimore. Let Maryland deal with the parasites in the same way that Houston Texas had to deal with the leaches of Norleans.
These dumb ‘think’ pieces are so 2006.
63 year 5 county resident. What would happen to the 4 counties surrounding Philadelphia would be absolutely hilarious.
Go for it!
I have to ask... about this article... what’s the point? With all the up-front qualifiers does it make any sense to even ask the question? Oh wait, it’s Philly.com so the writer is going for the pure-fantasy pulitzer.
Actually, one of the best ways to fix the Dem strength would be through tax codes. If the Fedgov budget was funded through the states instead of income taxes, it’d be easy.
- Fedgov passes a budget, with a certain amount of $$ spent.
- That number is then divided by the number of voting reps in Congress. (One of the few benefits of territory/protectorate versus statehood maybe.) So currently, each rep takes home budget/535 in state debt.
- Each state can then raise their share of the budget however they want.
So, if tiny states feel they have too much $$ for how few people they have (since each state has the same number of senators, this skews the bigger percentage share of the budget towards small states), then they can merge with other small states and have less budget responsibility as they lose senators. The NE might turn into four or five states instead of 11.