So these new (Northern) California and New Nevada statists (and throw in Oregon and Idaho secessionists) want to create new states? The political calculus being that you get 2 new senators for each new state. Well. I see your new state senators and I call your play by proposing five new states in New York (one for each borough) and a shitload of SoCal states too. That’s 10 new senators for the boroughs. Let’s chop up Southern California and the Bay Area the same way. For each Trump senator state we create two blue state senators by doing the same thing. House of Reps won’t be as substantially affected since that’s due to population (even considering gerrymandering the census). How many California and New York sub-states can we create? Each new state gets 2 new senators! Let’s gerrymander the new states. Gedanken experiment.