'New California' campaign aims to separate rural counties from coastal cities

[Algernon Moncrieff]

32. Let me say something upopular

California should split -- into about 5 or 6 states

So should Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and some others

Puerto Rico (and they should incorporate the USVI into the deal) should enter as a state.

Then....

Once all that has come to pass, the Congress should change the statehood requirements to require a minimum of 1.5 M people to qualify for statehood. Those states under that number should be forced to merge with other states. As it stands now, states like Wyoming (DC has more people), NoDak, SoDak, Nebraska, Kansas, and Montana, (and - sorry Sanders fans - Vermont) are WAY WAY over represented. We all took civics and understand the big state/small state thing, but when California and Wyoming =have the same number of Senators, and California has like 56 x the population, it's a little ridiculous.

DC, being north of the Potomac, should remain separate (the Constitution mandates this) but its people should vote in Maryland house and senate elections.