Comment by hgsgm

"Originally" doesn't matter anymore. The Founders wanted us to write a new constitution before 1820. They also didn't let women, blacks, and non-landlords vote.

Do you know where the States come from? They aren't local cultures. They are a bunch of territory ruled by some aristocratic British dude.

Most of the states that exist are due to undemocratic compromises with monarchs and slaveholders.

Draw state boundaries around communities that want to be cohesive, and stop designing a nation around 18th Century concerns, and we can talk.