Yes, I don’t know why the other states don’t just let us decide everything. We always do anyway.
A couple of posts before yours when I said we (Minnesota) would absorb them. We have 10 times the population. So we get some nukes along with our iron production, oil (North Dakota) and grain. I think we’d make a great country!
Yeah, but you ain’t getting Wisconsin without a fight, gopher boy.
The cheese stands alone.
Whatever state SkaldtheRhymer lives in is going to be the one to win any hypothetical battle.
All we really have to do is wait until Chicago invades you from the south and then ask the rest of the state who they’d rather join.
Who would win in a hypothetical battle between the states?
Assuming the battle turns nuclear: Hawai’i.
But they already do that, every year at deer season
It’s interesting to consider how an ordinary US citizen’s loyalty might go upon a breakup. While I’m sure there are some Texans who feel primarily loyal to Texas and only secondarily loyal to the US, there are a large number of people who consider themselves “Americans” who happen to live in Mississippi, Ohio, or Idaho. A lot of families are spread across the country - you might be in Alabama while your parents are in Indiana and your sister is in California. Now you are separated by the front lines - what do you do? Do you join the local war machine, try to escape and seek asylum with your sister, or try to get a message to your family encouraging them to come to you so that you can all serve together?
Pennsylvania’s Amish Legion will crush you all beneath their buggy wheels.
You know, at one point in that article it looks like it’s all about to come down to the Pac 12 vs. the Big 12 vs. the Big 10 vs. the ACC vs. the Big East vs. the SEC. And then, just like is happening in real life right now, the Big East gets eaten up by the ACC and its down to five.
I know that the quote was originally about NY, but there are certain sections of NJ that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade either.
Entirely aside from everything vaguely serious about this, I did enjoy seeing Hawaii and Alaska down there in the corner every time they had a map, just being like, “Yup, y’all do your thing. We’ll be here [eating pineapples][selling oil] when you get done with that.” 
Unless it’s a basketball war. Then the Big East can just steam roll everybody else.
I strongly suspect that Skald’s base is either on the moon or deep under the ocean’s surface. But I’m completely sure his loyalty would go to the highest bidder, anyway.
It would probably be for the best to just nuke New Jersey from orbit.
Oddly, they seem to believe that no smaller States could win, or even hold out.
Diplomacy & strategy can have an effect.
Example: Tennessee.
Tennessee has limited oil & refinery capacity, & lots of coal & hydro power. It also has a strong military tradition, it’s own Officer’s Military Academy, armament manufacture, & a startlingly high number of ex-military living here.
A hold-out state is possible.
Also, it could become a buffer state between two powers, by diplomacy.
The winner would be Vermont. They are like the Gurkha of states, I"m telling you.