I would rather have Alexandria and Falls Church and Fairfax, Prince William and Arlington Counties in VA join DC and Baltimore and Montgomery, Prince George’s, Charles and Howard Counties (and part of Baltimore County) in MD for a State of New Columbia that would leave the rest of VA and the rest of MD as GOP states. As for DE, I would give its two southern counties to the new MD, but then add Philadelphia and its Dem suburbs in Montgomery, Delaware and Bucks Counties, PA and in Camden County, NJ to the only remaining county in DE (Wilmigton’s New Castle County) to make it a Democrat state that leaves PA as safely GOP.
Good ideas. But the name “State of New Columbia” will not be acceptable. Perhaps that new state could be called “New Indigenous”.