I personally think any city with a population over 500K should be forced to form their own state - thereby releasing the former states citizens of the tyranny of that city’s population.
Imagine Illinois without Chicago, Cali without LA/SF, etc About 25 cities are over 500k, the leftover state become substantially less liberal; but the country as a whole more conservative.
Again, not a bad idea, but see my post #26.
After more thought, that might not be such a great idea anyway. We would simply be creating more deep blue states. Your idea would likely just result in Democratic control of the Senate for all eternity.
Just looked it up. There were 32 cities (not counting Washington DC) that had over 500,000 people as of the 2010 census. That would mean 32 brand new deep blue states, out of a new total of 82 states. Your proposal would leave states such as Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Minnesota, Iowa, and Hawaii unchanged. That’s 9 more states that are deep blue, for a total of 41 states, or half of the states. You are going to get at most a handful of GOP Senate seats out of those states. You would have to almost sweep the rest of the states for the GOP to control the Senate. Sure, states like Michigan, Oregon, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York would become more conservative, but it’s still a very tall order.