The Divided States of America
Evidently, this November, California will be voting on whether to divide itself into six states. And one of those new states will be called Silicon Valley! Reading this, of course, I had one of those “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” moments. Did I totally miss some news like US was occupying California for fourteen years and now the military is going to withdraw or something? 🙂
I think all states should vote whether they should split up then. Here are some that I can think of. Why don’t you add your own?
1. The state of Oklahoma is divided east-west and are called “Not OK” and “Absolutely Not OK” 🙂
2. The state of Alabama similarly will be divided north-south and called “People’s Republic of Redneckistan” and “Overgrown Lawn of Redneckistan” 🙂
3. Florida should be divided into three states by latitudes running thru Lake Okeechobee and Ft. Myers. They will be simply called “Eighty and above”, “Ninety and above” and “Hundred and above” 🙂
4. The alternate-lifestyle friendly state of Maryland similarly can be carved up into two states. The new state can be called Johnland. The remaining can still be called Maryland 🙂
5. Alaska will be divided into the monarchy states of Alaska (ruled by Sarah Palin) and Alaskim (ruled by John McCain)
6. New Jersey will be divided into two states – “New India” and “Three
White Guys”
7. Texas, being Texas, has to be different. I am sure it will vote to stay as a single state although it will go with a more appropriate name like “North Mexico” or something… 😉
You want to fill in for the other 42 states?
Florida could be just two states. Pan and handle
how about consolidating Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska into a single Irrelevanta?
you don’t have to do anything for wisconsin. if you wait a while, it will naturally split into curds and whey.
Love the ideas from Dhananjay, Vijay and Narayan. Narayan, I had no idea you could simply wis away Wisconsin 🙂
Nooooo! We don’t need more states (although I did think 3 white guys was funny 🙂 ) more states means more senators and we sure don’t need any more politicians! 😀
Al, maybe we should tell them that they can split as long as they vote in only female senators. That way we can have happy go merry debates in Congress with those three days of intense negotiations every month. 😉 (Okay, I am going to be in deep trouble with half my FB friends now 🙂 )
Which half? 🙂
See the attitude of Mizoram and Tripura being irrelevant transported. This is the United States of America not America. States have enormous power and rights and at the founding smaller states agreed to join the Union with the guarantee of equal rights as New York. Good, otherwise fracking will be banned in North Dakota and we will not be this close to energy independence and a manufacturing revival stateside as energy becomes significantly cheaper than China.
And if you had to split Louisiana what would you rename it?
Baton Rouge, Moulin Rouge and Ridiculouisiana? 😉
Then there is a part of Texas which is being divided into Semandhara and Andhra.
New York could be split: Too Big and Fail
Rajib – I laughed so hard I snorted! OMG! You ARE the CEO of comedy!
hilarious … lol …
OMG! Well said!
Raining on the ridicule parade I am sure. One of the irrelevanta states, Iowa has GDP about 60% greater than Maharashtra and South Dakota greater than Andhra Pradesh!! Its all relative. Here is a map comparing US states to countries. May be should declare countries and states in India irrelevanta too….http://www.businessinsider.com/countries-vs-us-states-gdp-map-2014-2
This is good. Why did you stop at 7? How do you get so much time?
Rupak,I guess the upside of spending so much time in rental cars and flying in planes !!!
Hilarious!
…speaking of that – even the rental car companies are consolidating… to start, the 51st one had better be the State of Confusion…
New York could 3 more apart from its 10…Manhattan,Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens..too crowded and need some focus…
Don’t get me started on Georgia!
Dan, come on… I am looking for some good ideas on how to spilt up Georgia
I don’t think I should but it would probably include the word gun-loving…
3 white guys! Rajib, that was the best.