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I’d love to see it broken up. Right now it’s just a guaranteed blue state for Democrats election after election, and many areas of California are getting poor representation. Since we’re currently in the process of shaking up a lot of things maybe it will finally happen.

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We could also join together Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and maybe a few other plains states into a single state. They always vote together and most people can't tell them apart anyway, plus there's the efficiencies of reducing redundant government functions to think about. And the naked partisan interest is just gravy.

Nah, keep them separate. Favor smaller pieces. Maybe split Florida into North and South.

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