51st State? Not Puerto Rico

[Cincinnatus]

This isn't exactly important "News", as it has virtually no chance of happening.  I just found it rather amusing and thought I would share...

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[Torie]

That would just breed two more Dem Senators, unless LA  County is deemed part of Northern California.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Wish Los Angeles would secede itself, so the rest of us would not have to deal with the embarrassment of having that around.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

That would just breed two more Dem Senators, unless LA  County is deemed part of Northern California.

LA county would be part of Northern California.

[Dgov]

That would just breed two more Dem Senators, unless LA  County is deemed part of Northern California.

it is--its not included in this plan, despite it stretching up to Fresno.

[Torie]

That would just breed two more Dem Senators, unless LA  County is deemed part of Northern California.

it is--its not included in this plan, despite it stretching up to Fresno.

Really?  LOL!  I thought I was just being snarky, as opposed to actually being accurate.  Who knew? 

[Dgov]

That would just breed two more Dem Senators, unless LA  County is deemed part of Northern California.

LA county would be part of Northern California.

Beat me too it.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

I think California, like Texas could be split in three.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I think we should cap the number of states we have at 50. Unless the Dakotas unite, then we could bring in another state. But I pray to God it is not Puerto Rico....ugh.

[Holmes]

wtf. This would just results in two hella ugly states. Oh wait, Riverside county supervisor? Probably just some Republican hack who wants to stuff all the Republican-leaning parts and small Democratic-leaning parts of the state into a new one.

[Hotblack Desiato]

Can we make upstate New York a state of it's own please? We'd no longer be tied to long island and New York City's leftist voters.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Given California's size and population it would make sense to have California be two or more States.  I just don't see that happening anytime soon, tho it should have been done from the start.  California's admission to the Union was way too rushed.

[minionofmidas]

California's admission to the Union was way too rushed.

I agree, it should be returned to Mexico ASAP.

[Joe Republic]

A strange pair of states they'd become:

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

California's admission to the Union was way too rushed.

I agree, it should be returned to Mexico ASAP.

No. We won California fair and square as spoils of war.

[Landslide Lyndon]

California's admission to the Union was way too rushed.

I agree, it should be returned to Mexico ASAP.

No. We won California fair and square as spoils of war.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

California's admission to the Union was way too rushed.

I agree, it should be returned to Mexico ASAP.

No. We won California fair and square as spoils of war.

Uh, you are supposed to be an anti-imperialistic dove.

[Napoleon]

Can we make upstate New York a state of it's own please? We'd no longer be tied to long island and New York City's leftist voters.

Wouldn't upstate New York still lean Democrat?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

California's admission to the Union was way too rushed.

I agree, it should be returned to Mexico ASAP.

No. We won California fair and square as spoils of war.

Im against expansionist wars, but since we already won that war, I say we keep it

[Paul Kemp]

Can we make upstate New York a state of it's own please? We'd no longer be tied to long island and New York City's leftist voters.

Wouldn't upstate New York still lean Democrat?

If upstate NY wasn't connected to the rest I tend to believe that it would resemble PA in it's voting habits.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

California's admission to the Union was way too rushed.

I agree, it should be returned to Mexico ASAP.

No. We won California fair and square as spoils of war.

Uh, you are supposed to be an anti-imperialistic dove.

I would've opposed that war if I had been in congress back then.

[Cincinnatus]

Can we make upstate New York a state of it's own please? We'd no longer be tied to long island and New York City's leftist voters.

Wouldn't upstate New York still lean Democrat?

Yes.  We votes Obama in upstate New York, but in 2004 the majority was just barely in favor of Bush.  In the very least, it might make it more competitive than the otherwise "democrat so don't bother voting if you're Republican" state.  Of course, I'm not sure how we would make up revenue we'd lose, or how our state parks would continue [of which the one's worth mentioning are upstate].  It may give political balance, but it would cost even more jobs (in Albany in particular), revenue, ect.  I'm not actually convinced it would be a good thing, it's more something us upstaters like to imagine would be fantastic.

[Joe Republic]

Long Island would be first out of New York long before upstate.

[Torie]

While we are at it, why don't we merge Delaware into Maryland (along with DC of course), and combine Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts into one state. We could do the same for Vermont, NH and Maine just to make it look a bit less partisan.  

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Just taking the 10 southern counties would work as a state.