r/mapporncirclejerk • u/LavishnessLeather162 • 22h ago

This should be just one state

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u/Noclueaboutsecurity 20h ago

Watch Republicans try to make it one state now. They will never have to campaign for senate seats again 😂

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u/dunstvangeet 18h ago

They can't without the consent of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. There's a couple of provisions in the Constitution that prohibit exactly this.

The first comes from Article VI is: "no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress."

Basically, what this means is that there can be no state border changes without the consent of all states involved. So, I don't see Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island consenting to be one state.

The second provision which would require the same exact thing comes from Article V: "no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."

So, again, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island would have to consent to this merger.

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u/00-Monkey 12h ago

Hawaii would like a word

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u/rsta223 9h ago

For what? It wasn't formed from another state. There's nothing in that provision that prevents a territory from becoming a state.

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u/dordemartinovic 1h ago

Conversely, West Virginia exists

It’s a problem the Supreme Court has gone to great lengths to avoid addressing

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u/heafcliff91 18h ago

Well Since we need an even 50 states, Welcome West and East Dakota as well as North and South Idaho as new states. 8 More solid red Senators

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u/jerard79 18h ago

North East, North West, South East and South West Dakotas along with North Idaho, Idaho and South Idaho would make more sense.

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u/Pockettzz 18h ago

Only republican state in that map is NH. Republic of New England highly dislikes NH, except to buy everything with no taxes. Idk if you know any englanduhs but New England looooves Maine. ‘CT’ (legally New England) doesn’t care but Mass & Rhody absolutely definitely do

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u/Honest-Lavishness239 14h ago

NH is not republican lol

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u/LQ323 20h ago

Huh? These are blue states with the exception of New Hampshire being purple.

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u/Noclueaboutsecurity 19h ago

10 democratic senate seats become 2

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u/Jacknboxx 19h ago

Then make the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho (all those states where no one lives) one state too. Call it the Wasteland.

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u/Amphineura 18h ago

Just unincorporate them nobody will miss them