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.red13n posted...

creating blue states is actually hard. Even chopping up blue states wouldn't necessarily do it. Our population has too many centralized points. We'd be better off merging a bunch of shitty red states.

Taking the idea seriously, and assuming we don't want to do anything too silly: DC is right there begging for statehood. That's one. Leaving California aside for now... that might be about it? You could split the NYC area off from the rest of New York, but the other part wouldn't be all that safe for Democrats. It's still way better in that regard than any of the other blue states dominated by one city. Plenty of other states in the Northeast (MD, NJ, CT, MA all come to mind) could be split into two blue states easily enough, but their small geographic areas would make that a hard sell. And of course you could technically split blue areas out of GOP-run states in theory, but good luck getting them to agree to that.

Luckily, California exists and can be split into as just about as many blue states as you could want. So yeah, DC statehood plus make California into like 6 new states.