why should eastern Washington be captive to a small area such as Seattle...and believe me, the election is decided there.....Dino Rossi is still fishing his ballots out of Puget Sound...
or NYS...why should upstate have to be saddled with NYC?.....let upstate have its own identity...it'll do better...
same with farm country in California....and even Illinois would be much better off if Chicago would be split from Mid and Southern Illinois....
The state is the political unit defined in our republic, entire states are small counties. If after secession a part of a state wanted to form their own state then that might be a possibility. See the history of WV.