While we’re at it:
Lop Miami off of Florida
Occupied Northern Virginia off of Virginia
Portland off of Oregon
Seattle off of Washington State
Detroit off of Michigan
Those cities/areas do not fit at all in the states they are in along with Chicago in the rest of Illinois and Pittsburg/Philly in the rest of Pennsylvania and NYC in NY State.
I live in Occupied Norther Virginia and I agree!
“Occupied Northern Virginia off of Virginia”
The sad part is that if you look at Virginia going back to the 1960’s, NoVa was the most Republican part of the state. The rest of the state was Dem - albeit former Byrd Democrats who were conservative but would never ever consider the idea of switching parties.
In order to win statewide back then, a GOP candidate needed to rack up really good numbers in NoVa and then perform reasonably well in the Valley and Va Beach.
Nowadays, a statewide GOP candidate needs to only not get slaughtered badly in NoVa to win statewide.
If done without the heat of a civil war, it would be an adiabatic path.
Minneapolis in MN also.
Re Detroit: add in Flint and Saginaw.
CC