You can’t kick out Texas, they aren’t even part of the United States.
I voted for Hawaii for boring reasons, but I like this suggestion. It’s a long running joke among me and a couple of friends that Delaware doesn’t really exist. None of us know anyone from there or even anyone who can claim to have lived there.
:sigh: Delaware, the Worst State.
Texas will probably demand to go sooner or later. Delaware we’ll have to kick out.
Also, what Tamerlane said. We had a thread on this board years ago arguing that Delaware was a fiction.
Yes, there would be a lot of pissed off Canadians.
Texas rules…
Other states are smaller and wussier…
I almost voted for Delaware for the reasons mentioned above. It came to mind first as the state that would be funny to kick out.
But thinking more about it, what would do the most good for the country and for the people of the state, I think Florida really is the correct answer.
Missouri. Because Missouri is to Texas what Texas is to the rest of the country.
I know someone who lives there! I’ve worked with him. 
I picked New Hampshire because there are a few people there who would be more than happy to be out of the Union.
The reason I chose Texas is because of the way they have screwed up the entire school textbook industry. I think it is Texas that is considering a law banning any teaching that encourages critical thinking. And that says it all about Texas, as far as I am concerned.
Florida, aka “America’s wang”.
Nebraska. Purely because I’d be amused to create an independent country as fully surrounded as possible by the rest of us. Kansas or the like would be fine too, for that experiment.
I know such enclaves exist already (the Vatican, the Kingdom of Lesotho…), but a foreign country in the heart of the USA should create completely different issues from the Vatican being embedded in Italy.
And it’d be, what, triple-landlocked. HA.
Precisely why I ruled out states like Nebraska and Kansas in my choice… Wait a minute! “TnTangent”? Are you the evil me from a mirror universe? Do you wear a goatee?
No facial hair now, though I did sport a goatee for a few months in college. Hmmm…were you working on any physics experiments about four years ago that went horribly wrong, or perhaps participating in one of Skald the Rhymer’s hypotheticals? If so, we might be in trouble…
Texas because they are consistently an embarrassment to your union, from death sentences to inaccurate textbooks!
Then you strike up some bilateral arrangements;
Yes, you can own 15 guns, in Texas!
Yes, you can ‘Stand Your Ground’, in Texas!
Yes, you can teach only creationism, in Texas!
It’d be an awesome refuse heap for the like minded, thereby improving every state, all at once.
I must protest this gross mischaracterization of South Carolina as being responsible for half the suckiness in the nation. Well over three-fourths of the suckiness in America comes from there, thank you very much! When South Carolina seceded, the average IQ of the US shot up by 50 points overnight.
Ha! This one’s great: