Which states would you get rid of or fold into other states

Mississippi and Alabama should be one state;

West Virginia should be part of Kentucky;

Oklahoma should be part of Texas;

Kansas and Nebraska;

Both Dakotas

"Delmarva" should be a state

All of the Confederate ones. Get rid of them.

Rhode Island is MINE!

As a Rhode Islander, I promise you - we don't want to be a part of Taxachussettes !

Just get rid of Nebraska. With extreme prejudice.

Never has there been a state so quaint and charming as Rhode Island.

Maine should take Vermont, and Massachusetts should absorb New Hampshire and Rhode Island. What is Montana good for?

Texas, return it to Mexico and outlaw slavey.

Maine doesn't border Vermont

New Hampshire

Texas- I would fold it into the GULF OF MEXICO.

You don't want blue states absorbing other blue states so we lose Senate seats.

There's a reason we have all these dumb mid/western states with tiny populations...the Republicans forced them through into statehood just to grab more Senate seats back in the late 19th/early 20th century.

There's really no reason for there to be a North AND South Dakota. Wyoming should have just been part of Colorado. Montana and Wyoming could have just been one big state.

R12 Please.

R13 gets it. It’s all related to the secret society which I need to stop bringing up on here before I am executed.

So much ignorance here.

Maine was originally part of Massachusetts. West Virginia was originally part of Virginia. Kentucky was originally part of North Carolina. There is a historical basis for each of Rhode Island and Vermont being separate. The one outlier is two Dakotas—that was a pure power play by a Republican-controlled Congress.

[quote] So much ignorance here. Kentucky was originally part of North Carolina.

Hmm Kentucky was part of Virginia not North Carolina, Tennessee was part of N C

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Kentucky was admitted to the Union as the 15th state on June 1, 1792, after a series of events that began with its status as a part of Virginia.

I don’t care if it were smaller than Monaco, I wouldn’t get rid of a single blue state. We need those senate votes.

All the Gulf states to Mexico then they can have their Gulf back.

Many of the 13 original colonies claimed the land to west of them all the way to the Mississippi River, they were forced to give up their western claims to that land shortly after Independence.

Honestly, Israel and Florida. Then we could have 50 states instead of one super important state and 50 minor states

I live in Providence, and I love the state. But honestly, I would love for RI and Massachusetts to recombine. After all , MA is the richest state by median income...Yay. We are very similar culturally too.

But, Yes. Definitely Fuse those Dakota Bitches together!!!!

California needs to be divided into at least 3 separate states. Plus DC should be a state.

Making the Dakotas one state would move their combined population from the 47 and 48 most populous states to the 41 most populous state.

Correction: Making the Dakotas one state would move their combined population from the 46 and 47 most populous states to the 40 most populous state.

The list I was using include Puerto Rico which isn't a state but if it was one would be the 31 most populous state.

South Carolina should be downgraded to territorial status. When you secede from the United States first and trigger a civil war, you don't deserve statehood. A simple merger with neighboring North Carolina or Georgia would make those states less politically competitive, so that's not an option.

New Jersey says: go fuck yourself

The “Western Reserve “ referred to that area surrounding Cleveland that Connecticut originally claimed for itself.

At least we can all agree on the fucking Dakotas.

The original settlers of the Northwest Territories, at the time of statehood, were New Englanders and upstate New Yorkers. Take back Ohio!

[quote]Maine doesn't border Vermont

I stand corrected. I really thought a piece of Vermont touched Maine, I was wrong. Give Vermont and New Hampshire to Maine

Then put Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkansas all together. You're knocked out of 5 Red States. Then combine Georgia and South Carolina. Give Oklahoma back to Texas.

Massachusetts, of which Maine was a part until 1820, surely touched Vermont. Take it back —

[quote]Massachusetts, of which Maine was a part until 1820, surely touched Vermont.

#metoo

The population of Wyoming is 580,000, the population of DC is 700,000, and the population of Puerto Rico is 3 million. There really is no excuse for neither DC nor PR being a state.

Alaska needs to be given to Canada.

I would leave the original 13 colonies (except NY) alone. Merge MT & WY as one state, and the two Dakotas as another. Turn AK back to a territory. Warn NM, WV, AL, MS, and AR that if they don’t get their economies growing and become more self-sufficient they could also lose statehood status and made territories or merged with a more economically stable state(s). Puerto Rico would be offered statehood or independence, no more territory. CA, TX, FL, and NY would be divided into smaller states with an eye on remaining somewhat self-sufficient. .

R23 😂 I love you.

Which would contradict the entire political and social history of the USA (except for reuniting a single Dakota).

A much simpler approach: Congress has full plenary power over the number of representatives. Just increase the number from 435 to account for a much larger population. The current number is unchanged from pre-WW One (other than a temporary increase as Alaska and Hawaii were admitted in 1959).

For R39^

The Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming should be merged into one big state (still with a population less than that of New Jersey and many others), one big prairie with two asshole Republican senators. Leave RI, NH, VT, etc. as they are.

Not a state, but D.C should BE a state, But Republicans would never allow this as it no doubt would become a blue state.

Rhode Island is a lovely state. Providence is beautiful. Don’t talk shit about it!

R44 you don’t need Rs. You need a simple majority in both chambers to define a new state while leaving a portion to remain as the “District” — as required without amending the Constitution. Oh, you also need balls to ram it through. Some day…

Since Republicans will never agree to DC becoming a state, I think that DC should be returned to Maryland, DC originally was a square with the southern part taken from Virginia and the part north of the Potomac taken from Maryland, eventually the Virginia part was returned to Virginia even though some of the land houses federal facilities. The same could be done with the northern part of DC, they would finally have a voting representative in congress and access to two Senators. Doing so would mean one or two more Democratic Congressmen from Maryland.

R47 that’s not how the Constitution works. Ref: r46 for the actual solution.

[quote] that’s not how the Constitution works.

Well it worked when they gave Virginia back its portion of DC.

And… you missed the point. That action didn’t create a state, did it?