Northern Colorado wants to Secede and become 51st State

[daleduke17]

Dafuq? I read this the first time and thought you meant cities, not counties. Then I looked it up. There are 102 counties in Illinois. There are rural podunk towns here in Nevada that have a larger population that several of those counties combined.

Yes, 102 counties in Illinois. Out of the top 10 in population, only 3 are not in the Chicago area (Champaign, St. Clair, and Madison - the last two are "suburbs" of St. Louis). The bottom 15 in population don't even add up to 100,000.

These states need to start squashing egoes and combine counties and their resources.

That is a great idea in theory. In Illinois, however, it wouldn't fly. We can barely get approval to consolidate school districts.

[HYHYBT]

Another thing is that at some point having things reasonably close by matters even if the population is small.