"Useless" is pretty subjective, no?
By that metric I still would prefer taking Florida's entire population and redistributing them evenly across the country and then making that state just one big nature preserve.
Disagree. Connecticut is quite conceivably the single most useless state - even if there are several (Florida, Ohio, Delaware, Oklahoma) that I dislike more. (Even you must admit that Florida is a useful quarantine zone. Connecticut has C+ pizza and the worst of the Law Schools, as argued by ideologues of all stripes.) Those in the New York metro should be forcibly annexed into New York. A deal can be worked out on the Senators.