Great Mobile Homes of Mississippi. Where would we be without 'em? (It’s not limited to Mississippi, either–ex-urban Montana has some doozies, too.
Sure get rid of Idaho. See if you get your French Fries at McDodald’s then.
You can have Utah.
Well, along the Sela Ward-from-Mississippi line…
Alabama has produced Courtney Cox-Arquette and Amber Benson. Nuff Said.
I’ve always thought that we should combine Idaho, Ohio and Iowa into one state (never mind that they are not contiguous) and call it Idahiowa
Yes, Mississippi and Alabama are the cradle of numerous fabuluos babes. Is this an arguement for or against getting rid of the states? Remember, the rest of us GET the population.
Hey, can Canada do this, too?
Sorry, PEI. We’re selling you to Japan.
A related thread I started.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=108230
It may be of intrest.
You want the bloodshed of another civil war on your hands? Remember that many citizens in some of the states you mention legally own fully automatic weapons. And we aren’t gving them up.
Now, dividing New York State into two states is a good idea, certainly many residents of upstate New York have more in common with Northern New England than with NYC.
Just an interesting note:
Most of the states that we mentioned have no/ crappy sports teams.
So KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT! Right?
I’ll thank you that as a native of Ackerman, Mississippi, I am most undoubtedly among the positive contributions made by my fair home state. (Yes, I was in pageants, why do you ask?) Mississippi is a very quiet, low-key kind of place, and save for the wretched mosquitoes, it wouldn’t be a bad place to retire.
But if we’re merging, I think that perhaps Mississippi, Alabama and the panhandle of Florida would make a good, contiguous state. Call it Florissama. I could live with that. Just keep that damned Louisiana out of the mix.
Ummm…you know that nice big chunk of western Montana that is shown on every sack of Idaho potatoes?
[sub]pssst…they grow potatoes there, too![/sub]
I’ll take Idaho (I’m a Canadian). I love the wild water rivers and the wilderness hot springs.
How about Puerto Rico?
What do you do with the massive part of New York that is upstate, but west of the Hudson River?
Three words:
Missile Test Site
We’d be MUCH better off without you (characterizations deleted)
Then SF could split - dynamite the bridges, cut a moat across the county line… Heaven
Tennessee.
Hey, Tamex, nobody has to fudge numbers about Alabama’s low rankings in state-by-state comparisons. We earn those low rankings fair and square. But I vote for Arkansas, they deserve some kind punishment for giving us the Clintons, the McDougals, Paula Jones, etc.
We Virginians have long memories and would never accept those West Virginias back as part of Paradise (well, maybe if they asked really, really nicely).
My vote - merge Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada into “The Forbidden Zone.” Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island would become “Up There.” (Remember the slogan: As goes Maine, so goes New Hampshire).
Connecticutt would be annexed by New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and most of Maryland would be combined. What was left over of Maryland would be ceded to Virginia. Combine North and South Carolina, as well as Tennessee and Kentucky. Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida would be combined into “Down There.” All those rectangular states in the mid-west would be combined into “Square Land.” One state would run from the Pacific Coast of Washington all the way along the border and include Washington, Idaho, Montana, Minnesotta, Wisconsin, and the UP of Michigan. Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa (the part not picked up in Square Land) would be combined into “The Sort of Midlands.” Oklahoma and Texas are merged just to get rid of Oklahoma. California would become an independent country, Alaska would be ceded to Canada, and Hawaii would be ceded to French Polynesia.