After 1900, how could a new US state be carved out of the one of the contiguous 48 states?
The US can't annex new territory to do this.
The US can't annex new territory to do this.
By land or population? Other then Vermont those states all have large populations. If you combine them, they lose representation in the senate. That's not democratic.Go the opposite way. Combine Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts into one state and Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine into another because having individual states that small is dumb.
North Colorado, which is basically the I-76 corridor,would exist as a deep red anti gun regulation state(in contrast to teal Colorado).Well, apparently there's a movement to divide California.
http://sfist.com/2017/03/26/latest_calexit_gambit_split_califor.php
By land or population? Other then Vermont those states all have large populations. If you combine them, they lose representation in the senate. That's not democratic.
Why not combine the states of Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Utah? Those states hardly have any people compared to other states and are massively over represented in the senate. These states despite having a very small percentage of the national population, make up a sizable voting block in the senate.
We should just combine the entire US into one state to prevent confusion.I don't care about democratic or undemocratic. I just hated having to keep track of those tiny little pieces on my map puzzle when I was a kid and I would like to prevent other kids from experiencing the same pain.
The population was more important for statehood historically, compared to area. If you dispose of Maine, you should also dispose of the statehood for Wyoming, Montana, Dakotas and Alaska.Go the opposite way. Combine Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts into one state and Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine into another because having individual states that small is dumb.
No mention of the State of Jefferson? If not for Pearl Harbour, it might have happened.
Wouldn't Illinois have the exact same problems, though, both in terms of where to draw the line and in terms of (Lake Michigan) shoreline? I think New York would be more feasable, because of the Catskill Mountains providing a geographic division and choke-point for the sprawl.Statehood for New York would get alot... messier in terms of determining where the metero sprawl starts and ends as to where to draw the line, not to mention robbing New York state of its shoreline. A more viable metro/state split in my opinion would be Chicago from the rest of Illinois.
Reservoirs in the Catskills are also where NYC gets all its water. How would it be a good idea to give up control of that water to potentially frack-happy upstaters who would need some sort of revenue to replace NYC?Wouldn't Illinois have the exact same problems, though, both in terms of where to draw the line and in terms of (Lake Michigan) shoreline? I think New York would be more feasable, because of the Catskill Mountains providing a geographic division and choke-point for the sprawl.
That's the rub with the California state split proposals too; even the proposals to divide Washington along the Cascades run into how Seattle gets a large part of its power from the Grand Coolee Dam.Reservoirs in the Catskills are also where NYC gets all its water. How would it be a good idea to give up control of that water to potentially frack-happy upstaters who would need some sort of revenue to replace NYC?
Does it want to be?That's the rub with the California state split proposals too; even the proposals to divide Washington along the Cascades run into how Seattle gets a large part of its power from the Grand Coolee Dam.
But in this case, why not put the largely-unpopulated Catskill/Delaware Watershed in the new State of New York City?
How much of West Virginia wanted to be in the new state? This partition would be much better, in a TL where a majority of New York City wanted to form a new state, since they'd be much more of a majority.Does it want to be?
Wouldn't Illinois have the exact same problems, though, both in terms of where to draw the line and in terms of (Lake Michigan) shoreline? I think New York would be more feasable, because of the Catskill Mountains providing a geographic division and choke-point for the sprawl.