I would love to see Jefferson, Lincoln, Wide Idaho, South California, Mariana Islands (including Guam), Navajo, Lakota, Sequoya, New York(shire) State and New York City State, Greater West Virginia, Franklin (or other Southern Appalachian State) and Puerto Rico being states/changing borders and more those just make most sense for me. US could have avoided this problem if you democrats didn't decide that electoral districts have to be of equal population instead of equal area (and preferably permanent, changed only by local referendum, not cyclically by the state authority), or if you had semi-autonomous provinces in your states like Europeans - recalling example i know, in Poland, which is the sizes of Texas and equally as rebellious in EU as it in US, we have 16 voivodeships, and each having on average 25 poviatships, with each having on average 8 gminas - there's 5 layers (not counting tiny stoolship - the village or neighborhood administration) of governance between your local community and the wannabe continental empire, unlike you with only 3, maybe being closer to central government was important in 18 hundreds, now it hinders regional self-determination and makes people frustrated.
I would love to see Jefferson, Lincoln, Wide Idaho, South California, Mariana Islands (including Guam), Navajo, Lakota, Sequoya, New York(shire) State and New York City State, Greater West Virginia, Franklin (or other Southern Appalachian State) and Puerto Rico being states/changing borders and more those just make most sense for me.
US could have avoided this problem if you democrats didn't decide that electoral districts have to be of equal population instead of equal area (and preferably permanent, changed only by local referendum, not cyclically by the state authority), or if you had semi-autonomous provinces in your states like Europeans - recalling example i know, in Poland, which is the sizes of Texas and equally as rebellious in EU as it in US, we have 16 voivodeships, and each having on average 25 poviatships, with each having on average 8 gminas - there's 5 layers (not counting tiny stoolship - the village or neighborhood administration) of governance between your local community and the wannabe continental empire, unlike you with only 3, maybe being closer to central government was important in 18 hundreds, now it hinders regional self-determination and makes people frustrated.