Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4919678-20151130092637/@comment-3428312-20160301061309

If you're presuming the balkanization within the last ~80 years, basing successors on terms on terms of existing states is simply impossible. The States within the Union have become so utterly dependent on Federal aid to help beef up their budgets that any major cuts to that (And assuming a balkanization, ALL will be) would lead to economic collapse. Even Texas, with all of its energy resources and growing tax base, still relies on a third of its funding coming from the Feds.

So tl; dr Balkanization as proposed is ASB.