Quote Originally Posted by jrj84105 View Post
I’m not sure where you most recently posted this LA, but I think it’s the basis for the way forward:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.bus...-states-2015-7

The USA no longer have enough of a shared national identity to strongly unite us. It’s time to allow more regional autonomy. We need to go back to 13 colonies.

Divide the 50 states into 13 regional governments (no more than 8 states/region) with each region having roughly equal population. Each region gets 8 senators (raises the total to 108) with each state (and DC and Puerto Rico) getting at least one senator and other than that allowing the regions to assign the remaining senators how they see fit. (Example CA gets their own region with 8 senators; UT, ID, MN, ND, SD, WY, AZ each get one senator to fill their combined allotment of 8).

Each region would have a big enough economy and population to enjoy enonomies of scale for their endeavors and would be protected from the frank idiosyncratic weirdness that arises in individual states). Caps for emphasis on where power resides:

LOCAL-state-REGIONAL-national

would better fit our nation than the current:

local-STATE-regional-NATIONAL
We'd probably end up like 19th century Europe and have endless wars.