Hello, amigo. I've been trying to popularize the idea of "seceding" New England and downstate New York out of our hair permanently. Keep Staten Island, Bedloe's (the Statue of Liberty), and Ellis Island (the immigration entrepot), and let them keep Riker's and Flatbush and Bedford-Stuyvesant -- oh, and Jamaica Queens, where Sheila Jackson Lee comes from, so we can ship her home rolled up in a carpet with a shipping tag stapled to her fat ass.
How 'bout that solution? Let them go play with the Canadians.
Just please remove that BEEATCH, Sheila Jackson Lee from TEXAS!