RE: Just expel California and New York from the Union and take Hawaii back to territorial status.
What do we do with Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois?
Western Mass, aside from the colleges, most of Illinois and a sizable chunk of interior NJ is Conservative. They’re just drowned out by the cities.
Outside of Chicago, and a few other cities, Illinois is farm country. Some of the best deer hunting in the country.
Hell, if we just isolated and walled off the cities, and controlled the liberals moving out of them, this country would be back on track in less than a year.