Hah! I voted Texas before reading any of the posts in this thread and Texas is in the lead. No doubt, it’s that whole “Texas is Almighty” attitude far too many people have encountered with Texans that led to that.
Of course, no state will ever get kicked out of the Union. Look at that kerfluffle when a few, including Texas, actually tried to leave.
Perhaps we can start with these states.
From the article:
Well, yeah. Texans spend so much time talking about how great Texas is that we could fill the entire message board with threads like this without upsetting the balance.
And Spain (for some definitions of split) and France… do the Dutch still have any overseas bits?
New Mexico can’t be kicked out, can it? I mean, I have absolutely nothing against New Mexico but all those Americans who think it’s not part of the US would be terribly surprised to hear it’s been kicked out, they might have brain-bleeds and hopefully raise the national IQ by several points… I did love the proposal to kick Arizona and put a fence on the US side of it.
Thank goodness- poor Elvis was so unpalatable that nobody bought any of his records, and he died a penniless, unknown sharecropper.
OUCH! Aren’t personal attacks forbidden outside the Pit? 
I’m dumping California for economic reasons.
You know my brother?!
I’d vote for the UP and/or Maine. Then let them join Canada if they want.
You know, if we even propose to let Texas go, the Mexican gov’t is going to be calling up, extremely irrate about the idea of having that thing independent on their border.
I say trade Hawaii for Puerto Rico.
For most of the states, I can see an argument for kicking each one out for one reason or another. But who’s the joker who voted Connecticut? What have they ever done? 
We could answer this historically:
Hawai’i: Not really in the Americas anyway, had a functional kingdom once. Put it in commonwealth status and get on with our lives.
California, Texas, Nueva Mexico (that is, “the Southwest”): Occupied Mexico, seized at swordpoint. In the interest of peace and justice, return to Mexico, sans Utah and East Texas, which are the most solidly Anglo parts.
The western watershed of the Mississippi-Missouri: The Louisiana Purchase. The treaty selling the colonization rights to the Yankees was illegal under the terms of Spain’s cession of Louisiana to France. Remedy unclear, but due to pre-existing contract, cannot be considered legitimately part of USA. Return to France or Spain.
The eastern watershed of the Mississippi: Occupied Quebec. Hand it over to Canada so those poor people can get socialized medicine and delicious maple syrup.
There you go. The USA will consist of the eastern seaboard, “the Floridas,” East Texas, Alaska, and a western bit stretching from Utah to Puget Sound.
Florida was totally ripped off from Spain by filibusterism. Much as Hawaii was ripped off from its own people. By foolsguinea’s criteria, Florida ought to be second in line to be returned right after Hawaii.
That was me. Childish, I know, but I wanted a 100 on my spelling test damn it. :mad:
Utah. Let the Mormons be free to practice polygamy, setting up a booming international commerce in the divorce industry. Get eight wives in Utah, divorce three in Nevada, rinse and repeat. That, plus fewer automatic electoral votes for the Republican nominee.
Second choice- Texas for giving us W.
Third choice- Nebraska because my Spartans got hosed by the officials in their game against Nebraska on the 3rd.
Ah, I wasn’t sure about Florida. OK, so just the Eastern Seaboard from Georgia north, and the Northwest? (And East Texas, because Mexico shouldn’t have to put up with them.)
Fuck it. Give them all back to the indians. They couldn’t do any worse with it.
And think of the casinos!
Yes, some Caribbean islands are part of the country, but the Netherlands and Belgium also each meet the criterion of having bits of land disconnected from the main part of the country but accessible without crossing any body of water. This article discusses Baarle-Hartog, a series of Belgian “islands” in a “sea” of Dutch territory – as well as the fact that there are Dutch enclaves within various bits of the town!
With all this potential for hard feelings, I think it’s important for people to remember the real nature of the fifty states.
Utah. Sorry Utes.
And as of right now, the most popular states (or at least the least offensive), with no votes, are:
Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington.