New contiguous US State

NYC also has to deal with being so tightly connected to the broader East Coast long-distance transport system, which creates a thornier issue for the nation as a whole by adding a (let's admit) rather heavy-regulation prone stumbling block on such a key corridor.
I guess I could be more familiar with Northeast Corridor politics, but would NYC State be noticeably more regulation-heavy than New Jersey or Connecticut already is?
 

TruthfulPanda

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Delmarva? But that would be adding bits of Virginia and Maryland to Delaware ... Maryland could be recompensed with Washington outside the Government District (which eliminates the mess with several million people not being represented in the Senate).
As to new stuff:
1 - IMO California should be split. IMO any State with more than 10% of the EC should be broken up automatically.
2 - Upstate New York.
 
It's such a cliche that the 51st state is always Puerto Rico, when more likely it will be a division of some other state. The obvious choices have already been mentioned, but the State of Jefferson being stifled by the Pearl Harbor attack seems to be the most promising (reminds me of Britain's stance on when Western Australia voted for independence in the 30s).

What I like is "city-states" of New York City and Chicago, where they can separate from the rest of the state (maybe take their metro area with them, although New York City would only get the portion within New York). I guess in New York's case they'd either annex Long Island too, or we'd have a new state of Long Island east of Brooklyn. The political arguments downstate vs upstate New York and Chicago area vs rest of Illinois have are pretty similar and both sides could come to an agreement to split. Chicago and NYC will probably send all Democrat senators and would be lucky to have a single (suburban) district where Republicans were even remotely competitive, but the rest of Illinois and New York would be much more competitive politically. And in many nations like Germany or China or Russia, large cities tend to be spun off into their own political units equivalent to first-level administrative divisions, so there's certainly an international precedent. Or maybe we could have a constitutional amendment establishing "city states" as a thing, which NYC, Chicago, Washington DC, and other very large cities (maybe Los Angeles too, or Houston or Phoenix) might qualify for--they'd get a full slate of House representation but only one senator. I'm sure they'd want two, but no doubt there would need to be a compromise where they'd only get one.

West Florida.

Or South Florida, since sometimes they talk about seceeding from the rest of Florida. And it makes sense, since the further south you go in Florida, the more it ends up looking like Southern California (but completely flat). Having been to Tampa and Orlando before, it reminds me quite a bit of the San Diego/LA area.
 
Time to just get over with it already and merge the states of our nation's geographic chef, Mr. MIMAL, together.
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With all the talk about NYC/LI separation, what about the State of Erie (Western NY)? With downstate controlling the votes, the purse strings, and much of the agenda, that area should've been clamoring to be on it's own a long time ago.

Also has enough people for 6 electoral votes - just saying...
 
If NY split, it would probably be: Richmond, King's, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk, Bronx, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange and Sullivan Counties as "New York" and the rest of the state Being Erie.

I think the best split would be Texas into: Texas, Trinity, Gulfland, Plainsland, and El Norte.
 
As any extra states/state split would create a new balance to the House and Senate, would the party who would lose out ever vote for it?
 
There was/is the movement for the State of Superior. Michigan's UP and the nofthern tier of Wisconsin.
Spliting California surfaces every twenty years or so.
 
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