If you could get rid of any state...

Texas, so they’d stop screwing with our school textbooks.

I’m also in favor of The Republic of Cascadia, comprising OR, WA and CA. Idaho can have the eastern parts of WA and OR, however, and Nevada/AZ can have eastern CA.

I vote for Alabama. Not only is amongst the top 5 most vile view-wise on average, but also one of the least vital economically and geographically. In the long term, it might be cheaper to write off their portion of the national debt and build a highway in the ocean to bypass their portion of I-10 than to continue to subsidize them with Federal dollars. (In addition to not having one’s country associated with theocratic pedophiles.)

Define “get rid of.”

If that means “Everything/everybody in the state vanishes and it reverts to a state of Nature” then I vote Maryland, but only if DC is part of the deal. If it isn’t, then Alabama.

If “get rid of” means the state peacefully secedes, then California in a heartbeat. The People’s Republic of Cascadia, here we come!

California. because they need to understand that they’re only important to this country if they’re a state.

and of course, casting off all of those useless airhead celebrities who do nothing of value whatsoever.

All the states have value. Here’s how they’d look as countries.http://www.aei.org/publication/putting-the-ridiculously-large-18-trillion-us-economy-into-perspective-by-comparing-state-gdps-to-entire-countries/

I don’t know why folks are eager for civil war 2 as that’d be the result of the US beginning to fracture.

Nevada. I live here. Then we’d be independent. We mine enough gold to get what we can’t produce or grow here.

Pennsylvania, because it’s a huge pain in the ass to drive through and the weather always sucks.

Plus that would get rid of the Steelers.

I think, in recent years, Kansas seems to be the state most destined to drag the rest of us down with them.

Just for a dry run , we can get rid of Guam, and see how that goes. If all goes well, we can start ejecting states.

One of the Virginias, Carolinas or Dakotas.

Confusion.

Oh, okay. Then it’d have to be something on the west coast. California, Washington, and Oregon are all irritating in their own special ways, so I’d be happy to let others decide which one to vote out.

Me too, but because then the number of executions in the country would drop by, like, 66%.

One of the Dakotas. They really aren’t all that different. Just merge them.

Ditto Kansas and Nebraska. Kansaska!

If you really want to get creative, split Missouri at the Missouri River, give the northern part to Iowa, the southern part to Arkansas, put Kansas City in Kansaska and St. Louis in Illinois.

We’re sorry to have confused you. We’ll draw it again, really really slowly.

My vote is Texas, and voting is the reason why. It’s the red state with the most electoral college votes, and would tip the country blue.

Minnesota. Not because of anything bad but because they have a good economy and well educated workforce. They’d make a good stable neighbor.

We’d probably just join Canada.

“Minnesota, America’s Canada”

Wait 60 years, Florida won’t exist at this rate.

But immediately? Texas. They’re big, they’re proud, they’d be happy to go on their own, and then Trump wouldn’t be in a position to build a wall on the banks of the Rio Grande.

Florida, that’s America’s wang.

You have a point. I lived in Delaware. VA should give up the southern part of the Delmarva Peninsula.Maybe MD should give up it’s part of Delmarva to DE also. Maybe if you blended WV and MD you could get a less offending shaped state?

Anyone remember The Conch Republic?