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Posted on 01/16/2026 6:05:06 AM PST by Twotone
Let’s pretend you are a liberal living in a red state. If you feel aggrieved about the condition of the world and believe that conservatives are to blame, you can find a few like-minded souls, print up some signs covered in half-clever phrases, and go protest. In most cases, unless you chain yourself to a railing on the courthouse steps or attack the police, you will usually be ignored.
On the flip side, let’s pretend you are a conservative living in a deep blue state. If you don’t like the school policy, E.V. mandates, high electricity prices, or restrictive gun laws, and you dare to complain, not only will you not be ignored, but you might be harassed, shunned, or canceled. Your solution to the hard blue insanity is a four-letter word: move.
Now let’s pretend you live in a state with a blue megalopolis somewhere over the horizon, but you don’t want to move. Let’s also pretend you have lived in your community all of your life and have roots there — a job or a farm or a business that would be difficult to replicate somewhere else. Why should you suffer because once upon a midnight dreary, councilors to a long dead king or a few drunk senators drew a line on a map that ignored rational boundaries?
Generally speaking, I don’t have a problem with people living the way they want to. That is called freedom. However, I object to some of our more right-leaning or left-leaning citizens forcing their ideas on everyone else, then treating those who disagree with them as second-class citizens. In some cases, this has prompted states to heavily gerrymander congressional districts, which disenfranchises both liberal and conservative voters. One solution is to adjust state boundaries to more adequately reflect local political values.
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No. Running just gives them the territory and they will come for more. Eventually, you run out of places to hide. Defeating liberalism is the only answer.
There’s a rural/city divide that would always be there. Realigning boundaries of the states won’t fix everything. Maybe have state constitutions that LIMIT what they can do would be the best thing. Lefties everywhere want to seize taxpayer money to ‘do good.’ (Yea, right.)
There’s got to be a way to limit gov’t at every level.
This is a bad idea. Everyone thinks that they will come out the winner if you realign state borders or split up states but it will turn into an ugly war. Liberals will split up big liberal states to get more senators. Besides, state voting does change over time. West Virginia used to be a solid Dem state. Florida used to be a reliable Dem state and now its solid Republican. California and Illinois used to be Republican states. The answer is to build political organizations in states to advocate for your positions.
Secession of whole states is the answer. It will be peaceful because all will benefit. People like you want us to live in hell because “there might be a war”
Wrong again. The current state of affairs is not sustainable. The longer the status quo remains the more terrific the eventual break will be.
This plan is the opposite of running.
Yet, when you look at a blue/red state map, the few heavily-populated metro areas are deep blue, with the rest of the state a bright red.
Therefore, big city leftist values carry the day on virtually every issue, with conservatives voters left wondering why they even bother to vote anymore.
I realize my state’s political situation is similar to several others, so a border realignment would seem to be worth looking into.
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States are already realign via migration. The entire south is being wiped away by people moving there.
It will lead to civil war, not a dissolution of State’s borders.
“The current state of affairs is not sustainable”
You will not be able to isolate them to their States. They will just go to yours. You have prosperity. They do not. You have stuff they will want, just like now: Makers vs Takers.
Defeat them. Do not kick the can down the road for your children to fight the battle.
There should be a minimum size standard in order to be a “state”. New England has a disproportionate number of senate seats for its area and an unfair political advantage over states like Texas. The northeast has several tiny states when you throw in New Jersey and Delaware and thus holds much more political power in the U.S. Senate than they deserve. Correct this and most of the problem is solved.
Guess which "color" calls all the shots in California:
Our Founding Fathers understood that big cities are easily controlled and, therefore, corrupt.
"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Tell us that you live in MN without saying that you live in MN.
Regards,
What state is truly a *large* liberal state? California probably could try it, but this would require Federal approval.
Keep the fifty state set up, realign it to better fit populations and cultures. I’d be OK with that.
That’s correct.
-PJ
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