Need to cleave the city off the state’s butt and make it the District of NYC.
Let the rest of the state try to recover.
Let the rest of the state try to recover.”
Actually, pick a state, and chances are there are one or more “large population centers” that need to be cleaved off that particular state's butt. Here in California, we have two hemorrhoids, San Francisco Bay Area and Lost Angeles (aka Mexico City del Norte). Next door in Nevada, they have only one, Las Vegas (which already houses more than half that state's population. Down in Texas, well they have at least four (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin), which will, sooner or later become the “controller” of that state.