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That sounds like a great idea. Mothball the south end of the Capitol Building; let 11,000 representatives meet and vote online.

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Or maybe acknowledge that 300M people is a lot to have under one rule of government and split the country apart according to the most sensible cultural borders.

I recommend checking ou the book [American Nations](https://smile.amazon.com/American-Nations-History-Regional-C...)

I reckon we start by letting Texas secede. Then we bundle up California + Hawaii into its own little pacific paradise. Then we offer all the northern border states to Canada. And offer New Mexico to Mexico...

>Then we offer all the northern border states to Canada.

Living in New England, there are actually a fair number of people here who dream of applying to join Canada or the EU if we could get free of the rest of the USA.

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