Maybe it’s a good discussion topic but you’d have to get both state legislatures to sign off, plus the House and Senate in DC. Zero chance this would ever occur.
But if they did all line up and sign off....I could see five more states splitting off and doing the same act (western Virginia going to West Virginia would be one).
This kind of talk has been going on for 50 years or more.
Upstate NY would like to separate from Westchester County, NYC and Long Island.
Killington, VT wanted to join NH.
I suspect all of southern IL would like to separate from the Chicago area.
The panhandle of Florida would probably want to join Alabama.
It would be interesting to see a national effort to remap states, if that were ever possible. Problem is that today’s liberal or conservative areas will change in years to come. We see that happening across the country—people move and remake their new homes to match their old, like Californians moving to Nevada and expecting the same anti-2nd amendment laws.
But if they did all line up and sign off....I could see five more states splitting off and doing the same act (western Virginia going to West Virginia would be one).
We would pick up 10 new Senators in those states and retain the conservative congressmen in those states.
If President Trump can bring back the red state congress members we lost in the midterm, the Dems could be in real trouble.
Maybe so, but it would be a great rallying cry in-state to try to get voters to change their allegiances after being shut down by entrenched interests.
-PJ
That's not what the Constitution says.
That would only apply if you are creating a new state.