As a native upstater, YES PLEASE.
Most of NY state is beautiful, and an outdoorsman’s paradise. Unfortunately, we are all taxed and regulated to death by the leftists residing in that sewer NYC.
If one drives up and around the whole state....it’s basically three states: NY City by itself, the east side (Albany) to Canada, and the west side (Buffalo). I’d even go as far as saying Long Island ought to be a state by itself.
But I’d go and do this convention thing with one other thought...drop the senators to one per state and limit their function to approving cabinet officials, attending funerals, and conducting Supreme Court approvals...with a life-time limit of twelve years as a Senator.
There are probably twenty states that ought to be broke up into at least two states each (California and Florida are good examples).