Do you want your area to be the 51st state?

I don’t. I live in a state.

Do you mean a city or county already in America becoming a state? Or, a country outside of the US becoming a state? Are we even talking about the United States of America? Could be Mexico? Other countries have states.

outside the country.

Is this for Guam or Puerto Rican people?

anybody not living in the 50 states. Territories are eligible.

California needs to be split into NorCal and SouCal. Guess where I live?

I live in My Own Little World and it would be nice to have it declared a state. It would be cool to have my own flag.

California doesn’t need to be split. Yes, SoCal and NorCal are very different, but so what. What we really need is the electoral college to stop screwing us over.

The District of Columbia should be a state, its larger than a few of them (population wise) and pays more taxes than a bunch of them.

Puerto Rico will probably be a state eventually. The island has been split pretty consistently over whether or not to give up their territory status.

Guam is unlikely to become a state.

I live in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, sister city to Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu. We would like to create a new state called StateWithCitiesWithVeryLongNames. We would also like to build a roller coaster.

@Allie Eh, I choose split, North Eastern and South Western, split pretty evenly where all the conservatives and liberals are.

Well, if we do this let’s at least go with even numbers. I can’t figure out how to fit an odd number of stars on the flag at this point. I am American living in TN, raised mostly inthe metro DC area, and lived the majority of my adult life in FL, with a couple other places I won’t bother to list. I am fine if PR, Guam want to be states, I think leave it up to the people living there. DC probably shoud be a state or part of MD or VA. I guess the bigger questions are what if Canada wanted to join up? I have a girlfriend from Canada who says it is talked about from time to time. Or Mexico?

@JLeslie Talked about, yes. But there hasn’t been a serious movement in either country in over 100 years.

@tedd Not to worry, I don’t expect it to happen :). I was surprised it was even mentioned any time at all in recent history.

Split California into two states. Northern California becomes Jefferson State.

This idea gets in the paper every few years, but I like it.

I don’t have any real desire to see California split up, but it would be kinda neat…North California and South California. South California would be smaller in area but it would have more people. And finally people would stop stereotyping us northern Californians with the shallow celebrities and models that live in South California… :P

@King_Pariah If you’re splitting it by political affiliation, shouldn’t you consider splitting it down the middleish between coastal and inland communities?
It’s true I haven’t looked at a map of party breakdown by county in a while though.

@Allie That only works in SouCal and around the San Fran area really. North of Cisco is pretty… conservative for the most part… if memory serves.

I’m from Canada and I would resist any moves to have my country become a state of the USA.
I love visiting all over your country and know some great people from the USA.

We are different in many ways that I value.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Toronto as the 51st state? I think there are actually a bunch of people living here who need to realize that we’re not the 51st state.

I have no desire for any part of Canada to become a part of the USA, and even less desire to live there. If I wanted to live in the US, I would.

SoCal for the shallow celebrities, NorCal for the elitist progressives.

I want a third option.

^ Like an area where they make terrible generalizations? ;)

No, I like not living in America. You can keep your imperial system and your white Christmases, just make sure you keep sending us Glee, and let me visit Disneyland from time to time.

@Allie Yep! ;)

The issue with Northern California is that a lot of the tax money from areas like Redding end up helping L.A. and not the roads up north, which are ruined by logging trucks. It would be nice if that area could get state money. Also, NorCal is very conservative, but is overmatched by large liberal voters in L.A. and the Bay

@filmfann @FutureMemory I’m a bit curious as to how far North you consider the “very conservative” Northern California. In my area, which is still considered NorCal, liberals outnumber conservatives by quite a bit.

@Allie here’s a map of the political makeup of Cali Red leans towards more conservative, Blue leans towards more liberal This is why I say North Eastern and South Western.

Cali looks pretty evenly split north and south to me. Seems to have more to do with big city vs. smaller cities and towns, like the rest of the country.

@Allie I live in the Bay Area, and consider myself in the center, politically, though I am seen as a Conservative by most of the people here.
I bought a house outside of the Redding area, and find myself considered a raging Liberal there.