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I've been thinking a lot lately about Puerto Rican statehood, and have noticed that typically Republicans in Congress are the ones to oppose the measure. This is largely because if Puerto Rico became a state it would almost certainly give the Democrats 2 new Senators in fairly safe seats. So I thought, I know, lets just make a new state that would be more likely to vote Republican. The State of Lincoln sounded like a good idea, fair population, been trying to split from Western Washington and Idaho forever, works fine right? Well, sort of, the Idaho Panhandle actually has a a decent number of people and Idaho would loose a few seats in Congress for it, so what to do? How about merge the remainder of Idaho with Eastern Oregon, also a region that isn't very much attached to its current state. Oh wait... It doesn't matter if we give them just two new senators to cancel out Puerto Rico's two, the state would still give democrats 7 additional electoral votes (depending on how the electoral college reacts to the change) Well, I suppose we could merge Oregon and Washington's remainders into one state, dropping an additional two Senators. That sound fair?

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I've been thinking a lot lately about Puerto Rican statehood, and have noticed that typically Republicans in Congress are the ones to oppose the measure. This is largely because if Puerto Rico became a state it would almost certainly give the Democrats 2 new Senators in fairly safe seats. So I thought, I know, lets just make a new state that would be more likely to vote Republican. The State of Lincoln sounded like a good idea, fair population, been trying to split from Western Washington and Idaho forever, works fine right? Well, sort of, the Idaho Panhandle actually has a a decent number of people and Idaho would loose a few seats in Congress for it, so what to do? How about merge the remainder of Idaho with Eastern Oregon, also a region that isn't very much attached to its current state. Oh wait... It doesn't matter if we give them just two new senators to cancel out Puerto Rico's two, the state would still give democrats 7 additional electoral votes (depending on how the electoral college reacts to the change) Well, I suppose we could merge Oregon and Washington's remainders into one state, dropping an additional two Senators. That sound fair?