Kick one State out of your region

HA! I'm in Massachusetts and I was getting ready to type New Hampshire.

I used to live in New Mexico, so for the Southwest, I'll add: Arizona.

R1 I’m also in MA 😂

Iowa, for a state that lives on government farm subsidies they sure want a government that would likely take it all away

Alabama

Pennsylvania - with the exception of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh it's basically Alabama

@r4... For reasons well known to them 🙄

Easy. Florida.

Well, I live in the NH seacoast and there is no place more beautiful to me. And even here- it is a lot of rich trash.

But I agree, NH. :)

West Virginia.

We don’t need two Virginias.

^ Damn right you don't 😠

If as a Brit I may play, substituting a region to count for a state..

Staffordshire. It’s basically more Northern than Western in character (it borders Cheshire & Derbyshire, fucksake), and is almost nothing like the other West Midlands counties. Also, it technically comprises half of Birmingham, the worst metropolitan area in the West of Britain. So it would be nice to get shot of it and administratively give it to the North.

R11 is correct. Birmingham is an absolute tip.

I would say Indiana, but I know the rest of the Midwest will gang up and kick my state out (Illinois)

@r11, Are you the North troll?

@r13, "I know the rest of the Midwest will gang up and kick my state out (Illinois) "

Nah, you're a big mess, but you're cool

New Jersey

(And as a former Massachusetts resident may I suggest Rhode Island rather than New Hamster?)

Maine seems very Canadian.

[quote]And as a former Massachusetts resident may I suggest Rhode Island rather than New Hamster?

Where exactly is “New Hamster?”🧐

I also vote Rhode Island over New Hampshire.

Is New Hampshire really that bad? I’ve never been there but I thought it was supposed to be pretty? And they were one of the earliest states to have gay marriage so I figured that it couldn’t be that bad.

R20- I live here. Concord NH- north is pretty bad.

New London area and the NH seacoast are lovely places.

New York

New Hampshire gettin dunked on

Well, I'm in DC, does Florida count as "in my region?" It's Southeast at least. If not Florida, then South Carolina. If not South Carolina, then WV or Tennessee.

I live in CA and I'll echo the vote for AZ

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Washington is in the South, r24, so feel free to give Floriduh the boot.

R18 New Hamster is the state where people watch pron while eating cak with graxy.

Another New Hampshire Seacoast resident here. It can't be that bad because every other f-in car on the road is from out of state. There must be something here that is attracting all these godawful tourists! 🚗🚲🚙🏍🚘🛵

I'm in Oregon. Give the boot to Idaho.

@r28, Oh, calm down I had to look at a map to see that NH had one inch of seacoast. Maybe all those tourist are just passing through on their way to Maine 🤔

i'm the CA person. The reason why I didn't give ID the boot is because it's freaking beautiful (as is OR, WA and NM). The political makeup is definitely problematic though.

Easy—Missouri. Outside of KC and St. Louis, it's stock full of redneck trash.

As a Marylander, I'm booting Virginia. West Virginia can stay but she's on thin ice

I live in Ohio. I vote to kick Ohio out.

^ You can't kick your own state out, you'll fall through the hole and end up in China 🤔

If they kicked out Delaware no one would notice.

Marylanders can’t drive for shit.

Maryland looks like every state around it already took a bite out of it and then took space for DC.

Just finish carving it up.

R36 I was going to type Delaware as well. Apart from liberal corporate tax incentives/laws, what else does it have goin on. Nice bit of coastline, though.

IL chiming in (really Chicago). I would like to remove IN. WI, MI, MN, and IA all contribute a number as hot ass men to Chicago. Those Midwest hunks come in droves from those states. IN contributes next to nothing when it comes to hotties. The hot ones that went to college in IN and make it to Chicago we’re likely raised somewhere else. So IN can go.

If you’re gonna be a conservative he’ll hole, at least produce some sexy Midwest man meat for me to fuck or ride.

Exactly

W&W, r38

R3 Iowa is full of gorgeous baby gays that will leave at 18 and be the apple of gay men’s desire in the bars and clubs. IA and WI are like hot white boy factories. All those German and Scandinavian genes floating around other there.

@r40, Oh, Illinois, you poor deluded failure of a state. People, like me, are FROM Chicago, but get out when the getting is good. I live in a very nice part of Wisconsin along with thousands of other Illinois refugees. Before you pick on your neighbors, fix yourself

R34 Cincinnati at least does look and sound like a b0mb hit it.

It looks like the Manchester (U.K., pre-A rab investment) of the Midwestern States.

Ya burnt!

@r43, " IA and WI are like hot white boy factories"

And that is why I live in Wisconsin

- r3

Rhode Island should be given an ultimatum: merge with Connecticut or leave.

What's so bad about northern NH?

Maryland is a back aching for the lash.

AL, TN, & LA make us look bad.

Nebraska would be winning if anyone even remembered it existed.

^^^^

I've lived in many states, (originally from CA) and I can't think of getting rid of one! We're all a delicate, symbiotic ecosystem of tourism and tax fraud. We need each other!

I have to parse the OP proposal. I want to kick out the Western half of Pennsylvania. Eastern PA fits nicely into the Mid-Atlantic. But western PA/Pennsyltucky ruins PA.

Hey! we are fine in Western PA

Ok, not following the rules because *Datalounge* but fuck northern California starting at Redding, a city that kicked out their mayor because he followed federal and state mandates during the pandemic. And he was a Republican! This area is where the notorious "State of Jefferson" loonies reside in big numbers. The only reason I wouldn't relish booting them in the ass on the way out is because if they make themselves an actual State they get 2 Senators--why the fuck does our democracy allow cranks and rubes in the boonies to have more representation in government than the millions who realize we're living in a SOCIETY goddammit!??

Chico you can stay but I'm keeping an eye on you. Red Bluff gets a pass because it's small and funky and because Mary Brown, widow of John Brown the Abolitionist, and her family lived in Red Bluff from 1864 until 1870. Her house at 135 Main Street, built for her by the citizens of Red Bluff, is a state historic landmark.

I don't like southern Oregon either. Leans conservative and it's ugly. Don't need their coast. California has enough even if it stops at Mendocino.

Definitely New Hampshire. If you see a Vermont license plate in NH it's because you have to go through NH to get to other, better places.

Do they at least have cheap gas, r58?

They do r59. And cigarettes. I guess that's a reason to go there but yuck.

I kick Dallas out of Texas.

All my hexes live in Texas.

- Witherspool Kitchenwitch

Maryland and Delaware are interesting because historically many considered them Southern, the Maxon Dixon line is their border with Pennsylvania but of course most wouldn't consider them Southern now. But, they seem different than Pennsylvania and New Jersey with whom they are now grouped. They just don't really fit with others, they are their own little group.

And fireworks and cheap booze Rescue-Chick! And skeeball off the boardwalk at Hampton beach. New Hamster is a land of wonders.

r44 you make no damn sense or can't read. I praised WI, twice, in this thread. How the hell can Chicago even be bad when it's population remains stable. IL is losing folks because outside of of the Cook and Lake county, it's basically IN. But, Chicago is awesome which is why so many people from WI move or visit all the time.

So effectively what the hell are you even talking about?.

Turning!

@r64, I just bought a lovely new home in New Hamster, isn't it fabulous?

That’s kewl.

Quite fabulous R67!

Any state (not capitalized here, OP. Oh, dear) that voted for Trump in 2020 needs to be put on an action plan.

I know where the next "Protect Americans" walls need to be built otherwise.

Arkansas!

r44, there was a PERIOD after INdiana. He liked WIsconsin in the next sentence.

I'm in Pittsburgh. Can I kick two (WV and Ohio)?

From a socio-cultural perspective, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan are really more Central Time Zone kind of places. They’re simply not our sort. Please leave.

I’m in Southern California: Arizona gets my vote but Eastern Oregon is no picnic.

[quote]Rhode Island should be given an ultimatum: merge with Connecticut or leave.

Only if the merger stipulates Sen. Sheldon Hot Grumpy Daddy Whitehouse gets to keep his Senate seat. I like Blumenthal, but Chris Murphy gets to keep his seat, as well.

I live in Colorado. I vote for Arizona too!

@r65, I misread your sentence and did not notice the period after IN. I apologized

Pistols at dawn.

^ My gun is bigger than yours 😜

What’s the opposite of the Puny Cocklet Troll?

Idaho. If it secedes, we can treat it as the hostile foreign power it's become.

Can we kick a state out of the Union if it won't secede?

Another vote for NH. The rest of New England is so nice, where this is full of trashy towns and conservatives.....can we move it to the midwest somewhere?

Not my region (I'm in CA), but I'm putting in my vote for TX. I'm sorry, there's just too much corruption and racism in that state. And it's HOT and FLAT as hell.

Utah. The Grifter state of Heavenly Father.

Change places with Colorado and CA, NV, CO makes a more sensible neighborhood.

So easy. Bye Delaware.

NJ or CT?! That’s a hard one to choose🧐

Born in Pennsylvania, live in S. California (La Jolla) last 30 yrs.

Agree with Central Pa, Love Pittsburg& the surrounding area.

I would choose Idaho (most racist state hands down) They hate the Big Government& but want them to pay for everything. Crazy neo-Nazi white people. The meeting was nuts, I had to fight the clients son cause I called him the crazy orange little dicked man married to Epstein's leftover old whore!!

Midwest: It's a toss-up between Missouri and Indiana, but with Missouri, it's personal, so that one.

In Massachusetts. It depends. If I'm basing on being weird and asshole-ish then it's New Hampshire, hands down.

But Rhode Island's broke so who wants them?

We really need to encourage all the racist MAGA dickheads to move to one state, and secede from the Union. I know they were planning to all move to Southern Carolina at one point, but they seem to have dropped the idea.

So we need to start a stealth campaign to get rid of them, so which state shall it be? Texas, or Idaho?

Texas. I know it's a wide state, but I feel like we could collectively hold them back. Let's take ID back from the assholes!

^^plus TX landscape and climate isn't anything to write home about.

Illinois hereby volunteers to kick itself out. We're surrounded! (But, we're taking Lake Michigan with us.)

R91 I remember when they were going to start that. It didn't work because they were idiots. They didn't have a huge amount of money and decided the best place to start was the low-country that has some of the most expensive real estate in the state. I mean they were looking at areas near where President Biden vacationed the other week. Also, that group was trying a theocracy type movement. As one person, I know, told them, "you can't get one Baptist church in this state to agree on anything, and yet you think you are going to get them, along with all the holy-rollers, the Methodists, the Catholics, and various other ones to agree on a form of theocratic government? It will NOT happen."

Also, this state is of course steeped in Civil War history, though I wish we would focus more on the fact that more Revolutionary War battles were fought in SC than in any other state, but one thing they don't shy away from in the Civil War museums, re-enactments, or any of the old "Lost Cause" type attractions, is death. It is central to the myth. They emphasize how deadly that war was to EVERYONE, it remains the deadliest US war and today it would be at least ten times higher. When push comes to shove, I don't think the majority here or in any other state would want another Civil War.

We don't need two Dakotas, and South Dakota hasn't inspired many feature films, so they should combine into Upper Dakota.

R91, we tried to do that, but a bunch of busybody do-gooder Yankee cunts couldn’t leave well enough alone, and now the country is an absolute tip.

Nebraska. Not even our society in decline needs that much meth.

R43: Agreed.

Once you get north of Westchester (or east of Queens and west of Riverhead) New York State is pretty MAGAtty. Big Leesie Stefanik is from upstate as is Carl Paladino.

More than that, upstate has more in common with the midwest culturally and historically (canals, Rust Belt industries, etc.) Buffalo is far more similar to Cleveland than it is to Philadelphia, Baltimore or even Hartford (depending which group you want to put NYS in)

That's because river/canal culture was the original information highway. Cities along the Erie Canal and Great Lakes are very similar because of the constant cultural exchange that occurred with passing ships and barges. Cities along the Mississippi and it's tributaries are very similar right down to an almost discernible river accent

Absolutely Illinois. It's incapable of being saved.

^ Does Illinois Rep. Cockgobbler know about this?

R76

That HOT Irishman Chris Murphy definitely gets to keep his seat ☘️