Topic: Who's ready for the 51st state?

I think we should trim a few states before adding some new ones. Some seem "secede-happy" already.

I lived in SoCal a while back, so I know how it is. 120 degree summers. Bleh. I think the heat's gone to some peoples' heads.

Great, here comes The Civil War II

And I heard news about this last year too and nothing happened.

Don't hold your breath.

I say we take over the moon and make it the 51st state.

I have to say, I'm with Adam here 110% >:3

Moontana? And thus they introduced oxygen tax.

There already is a fifty-first state. Didn't any of you get the memo? D:

_{new feenieland is totally legitimate, bwaaaah}

I for one welcome our new robot overlords >:3

lol yeah its usually hot here in Arizona but it snowed here on sunday......of course today its gonna be almost 80º

so i've taken a few arbitrary suggestions and ignored most of them. See--I'm already like a real governor!

Based on the input I've gotten, we're going with Dirtucky Murtakuvania. Governor's chair is filled. Otaku will be my Prime Minister of Pain (he administers beatings publicly) and feenie's in charge of roundhouse kick training for my army of pirahna-throwing walrii (plural of walrus in Murtakuvanian) so that they'll have both long range and short range efficacy.

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This is about as huge as the talks for Australia to become a republic, and thus completely independent from Britain and the Queen.

Also, our landmass is a bit smaller than the US, but we only have five mainland states, so our states cover a lot of ground.

The Queen is only the current head of state of Australia. For all intents and purposes, Australia is independent. But I can appreciate why Australia want to go further and declare themselves a republic.

Meanwhile, in Britain, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England are all seeking to break from the Union (England to a lesser extent - when we ask for a referendum on a dedicated parliament, we are told we don't want one - even though the consensus is overwhelming) - even the English county of Cornwall (fuelled by the concept of Celtic brotherhood) wants independence from the UK government.

I wonder what will happen to Nintendo Australia if we become a republic. Will we lose support from NoE? Are we already through the looking-glass? Maybe I should move to Dirtucky Murtakuvania...or Olympus Mons...

If Texas hasn't been able to do it yet, then I don't see it happening for _{part of} Arizona.

Then the next thing you know, you have Arizona, Baja Arizona and then bam Baja Arizona Sur.

Talking about completely original names.

Yeah, this will never happen. Living in the southwest, it is interesting how charged the debate is locally. As far as a 51st state, northern California and southern Oregon have been proposing this for a while, calling the new state something like "Jefferson" I believe. I don't understand why Puerto Rico isn't technically a state. They get to vote for the presidency and all that.

I wonder how long this will last. It is like when Cape Cod was planning on separating from Massachusetts. It was a pretty strong idea until they saw how badly the prices and taxes were going to rise...or something like that...I don't remember.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_partition_pro... I know it's wikipedia, but even if half of these are true, it's pretty remarkable.