Indiana Proposes to Absorb 33 Counties from Illinois that Voted to Leave the State
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It would need to be a contiguous area in order for it to work properly.
3 more counties would do the trick.
Not realistically. You cannot orphan the southern part of the state, they'd have to join another state, or leave some physical connection from north to south.
Likewise, I see a little green square in that mass of red. Not sure how that's gonna work.
Though i believe this should be allowed, it'll have to be refined more IMO.
Michigan is one state in two places without a land connection. It's not new.
Those places are separated by water, not land. Hawaii, Alaska, and any number of states have portions separated that way. I'm not familiar, however, of any states that have portions land locked away from the rest of their state.
Landlocked involves an absence of roads. That's not the case here.
That is idiotic and roads have nothing to do with it. The point is no state is going to be intermixed with another state to the effect that you have one state entirely surrounding portions of another.
Then Indiana will be contiguous, but new Illinois is already not contiguous.
"33" counties?
Remember the US map puzzles when you were a kid? This change would make those puzzles a lot tougher.
Keyword: "non-binding referendum" (3rd paragraph). They do this type of thing a lot in TX. A 'non-binding referendum' is nothing more than a proposal and put out as a 'poll' for its constituents to (supposedly) vote on. If the 'poll' shows interest from constituents, then the state legislature MIGHT consider proposing actual legislation for it. But, unfortunately, since Illinois is a Dem stronghold run by Chicago gangsters, I can't imagine this initiative ever actually going anywhere. Wish the people in those counties could escape/secede though and wish them luck!
We don't want those stinking counties.
That will result basically in most of Southern Illinois having to secede to surrounding states. As they’d be cut off from the rest of the state. Which would make Governance from Springfield impractical for those areas that didn’t wish to leave Illinois.
And the problems with drawing the new borders. Will undoubtedly by necessity involve neighboring states
I don't think they would cross the Big Muddy, so Kentucky have to become larger.
Or else Indiana just absorbs southern Illinois altogether