Hari Kondabolu: Why America Should Cut 10 States

The Core Argument for State Reduction

• 💡 Comedian Hari Kondabolu argues that America has too many states and proposes cutting 10 of them.
• 🎯 The primary reasons cited are redundancy in state names and geography, and the disproportionate power held by small states.

Proposed State Mergers and Consolidations

• 🗺️ Kondabolu suggests combining North and South Dakota into one Dakota, and similarly merging North and South Carolina into one Carolina, and Virginia and West Virginia into one Virginia.
• 📌 Tiny states like Rhode Island should be absorbed by Massachusetts, and Delaware should be merged with Maryland and Virginia.
• 🤝 Geographically or culturally similar states, such as Alabama and Mississippi, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, and Vermont and New Hampshire, are proposed to become single entities.
• ☕ The Pacific Northwest states of Washington and Oregon are also suggested to merge, partly due to their shared characteristics like