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Most people in Virginia wish that Northern Virginia wasn't part of the state. Though its not as bad as the DC suburbs of Maryland since at least southern Virginia is not expected to subsidize NOVA to the extent that rural Maryland subsidizies Montgomery and PG Counties especially transportation and mass transit. The Eastern Shore is self sufficient and suffers high taxes just to support the DC suburbs and Baltimore City. Wihile liberal laws made in the Western Shore hinder economic development and agriculture on the Eastern Shore such as all the laws against septic tank development, all the one size fits all "smart growth" restrictions that make absolutely no sense in small towns, and all the environmental regulations placed on fishing and farming especially.
Yeah, I can't speak for Maryland, but in the case of Virginia, NoVa pays more to the central government than it receives in return (it's the main driver of economic growth). Richmond is smart, though, and invests a lot in NoVa, especially transportation. But we're also nickel-and-dimed in NoVa (a fee to keep an out-of-state car in Arlington, e.g.).
Cincinnati is a Midwestern city, and would not fit in well with Kentucky. It has more in common with Indianapolis, Cleveland, Detroit, Columbus, and St. Louis and Kansas City than with Louisville or Lexington.
We have more in common culturally with Louisville than any of those cities except maybe Indianapolis and St. Louis.
I go to school with people from all of these areas and I'd say without a doubt Louisville is the most similar. Big catholic high schools dominate DI high school football, bourbon most popular drink, country music huge in both, and both have Ohio river culture. Louisville is also closer to Cincinnati than any of those cities by an hour at the very least.
Cincinnati has very little in common with Detroit besides a shared industrial past. Kentucky has greatly influenced Cincinnati and a good percentage of people have ties to that state. Politically, SW Ohio has more in common with KY than it does with the rest of the state and not a lot of people in the area have a favorable view of what happens in Columbus.
Additionally the Enquirer covers UK sports equally if not more than OSU. IU gets no coverage at all in comparison
Merge the upper portions of Delaware with PA, WV's panhandles should both go into Pennsylvania, everything west of Hagerstown in MD should go to Pennsylvania, NYC and Long Island should go to NJ and either be renamed or the state should be renamed, merge Vermont and New Hampshire, split CA in half, NoVA should merge w/MD, merge the rest of Delaware with MD and VA's Eastern Shores and create a new state (replacing Delaware so 50 states will still remain). Merge the Florida Panhandle with Georgia and Alabama, merge El Paso, TX with New Mexico, and merge TX's upper panhandle with Oklahoma.
Pittsburgh, and Western PA should merge with West Virginia and Pittsburgh should become its new capitol. Southwest Ohio should merge with Kentucky. Northeast Ohio should merge with Western NY and the little slice of PA along lake Erie.
There was once a state proposed that was similar to what you suggest:
Combine some of those New England state. They are too small without enough differentiation.
Give Alabama and Georgia some of their rightful parts of the Florida panhandle.
Divide California and Texas into at least a couple of states each.
Its funny that you propose spitting Texas but Combining the New England states, because Texas, split into several pieces, lets say 3, makes the average Population ~8,600,000 for each new state. New England combined would have nearly 15,000,000 people.
MA- 6,700,000
CT- 3,600,000
NH- 1,300,000
VT- 700,000
RI- 1,100,000
ME- 1,300,000
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14,700,000
What do you think would be the first state to be redrawn, or the state that most needs to be redrawn.
Long Island/NYC need to seperate from the rest of NYS mostly b/c our state govt sucks and mosty benefits upstate. Having a state of our own would ensure all the revenue benefits us. Also, can we draw in a bridge from LI to CT? We need that. K, thanks.
California - definitely needs to split. It's more populous than Canada. North, South, and Interior California. Consider making greater LA a city-state. Give the interior to Nevada.
Texas - Seems like it needs 3 or 4 divisions. East, West, South, and maybe even a panhandle/Plains division (or merge it with Oklahoma - I know, blasphemy)
The High Plains states like Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas? Just make a super-state of 3 million people. Or at least merge the Dakotas. Idaho and Montana could be merged as well.
Florida - South end could go be its own state. Combined with Puerto Rico, South Florida could be a unified Caribbean state.
Alaska - Do the United States even need it anymore? The Cold War and gold rushes are over, and it's so remote. Let it become independent. (at least it will keep Palin from getting elected)
New England - Connecticut and Massachusetts are suitable size. Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire could just as well form a single state and be a regularly sized state like l most of the southern and midwestern states, both in terms of population and area. Rhode Island? Annex it to MA or CT.
West Virginia - needs to take some more counties out of western Virginia, and rename itself "Appalachia".
New York - Make NYC a city-state, annexing all of Connecticut and the north half of New Jersey. South Jersey is still big enough to sustain itself, and holds the capital of the state. Rename Upstate New York "Hudson".
Delaware also seems a little small and obscure. Is it really state-worthy? It can be merged with what is left of New Jersey.
North and South Dakota could be split East and West. I've always considered western South Dakota to be more similar to western North Dakota than it is to Eastern South Dakota
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