The goal is four more Democratic senators. But can we find two Republican States willing to split up? They might be Republican States where natural boundaries make such divisions attractive to residents. Suggestions? Pennsylvania might make sense, but eastern Pennsylvania would likely turn Democrat, especially with Philly's creative electoral math.
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Statehood for Puerto Rico and DC?
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What about Western WA & Western OR?
ReplyDeleteThe places in D. C. that are commercial and residential should have been turned into public green zones parks or museums and the like. Failing that those parts should been ceded to the adjacent states
ReplyDeleteHow about peeling away the conservative parts of states that are ruled by their leftist capitals--like all of California north of SF Bay? It would add another red state while diminishing the power of Commiefornia.
ReplyDeleteRemember that the Democrats vociferously opposed statehood for Hawaii on the grounds that it would elect Republican congressmen and senators, and - with its majority non-asian population – be firm votes FOR civil rights and against segregation.
ReplyDeleteThey 1950's Democratic party politicians also weren't that happy with the thought of Alaska as a state - also projected to be votes for civil rights of minorities, even though the state leaned D at the time of accession, so admitting both provide balance at least in caucus numbers.
Given that the Puerto-Rican political parties are weird and not at all in 1:1 alignment with national Republican/Democrat parties, I think that the assumption that PR would elect D people to the house and senate (in alignment with the way PR-born voters vote in their NY and FL districts) is quite likely to be a mirage.
4 of the last 5 PR delegates to Congress have been of the Partido Nuevo Progresista, of those two have caucused with the Democrats and two (including the current one) have caucused with the Republicans, so it sure looks like people IN Puerto Rico have no problem electing people to represent them in DC that they know will be on the R side.
Would it have to be Republican states? If upstate split from NYC metro. Illinois minus Chicago. Rural California from the heavily populated Bay-LA strip.
ReplyDeleteWould it have to be Republican states? If upstate split from NYC metro. Illinois minus Chicago. Rural California from the heavily populated Bay-LA strip.
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