[FreedomNotSafety]

There is no way to split these areas. Take Ohio, no one in a conservative area would wish to be stranded in a DimLib hellhole. If you lived in the mostly conservative Cuyahoga Valley there is no way you will vote to be part of a new state dominated by Cleveland.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

This could wind up with discontiguous "states." You could have Cleveland and Columbus become one state even though not adjoining each other. See, for example, Kaliningrad Oblast.