Do you believe California and Texas are somehow ideologically compatible? If so, maybe New York would enjoy a union with West Virginia and Tennessee. Our divisions don’t break along geographical lines. Until you attempted to wed California to Texas I was wondering how to move New York to the west coast.

California Oregon and Washington could team up to make a new country, if we could carve off some of the eastern rednecks to join Idaho. It could be an entirely new country named COW and New England would be welcome to join us. If so, we could call it New Cow. As for as the rest of the country, they can have Trump and fascism.

But forget about hand-cuffing California to Texas. California is a BLUE as New York. I’d rather give California back to Mexico.

Texas, Arizona and Florida would make a nice team. That would keep a lot of the nut-cases in one country. We could call it ATF, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, lots of firearms. Everyone in AFT would be required to be armed at all times with two crossed bandaleros of ammo, two six-shooters, plus an AK on a sling. State motto: SHOOT FIRST, SHOOT OFTEN!