Going back to the statehood argument, I think Puerto Rico should definitely be granted statehood. I also think Wyoming should lose statehood, and split up into adjacent states. I would perhaps merge Vermont and New Hampshire, and split California into two states. If I had my druthers, so to speak, I'd also chip away at Texas and Florida, the goal being to limit the extreme differences in population size of states. I just don't see the point in adding many small states. I feel there are inefficiencies of scale there, and it's unfair to larger states to have even more smaller states getting outsized influence in the Senate. If DC residents want better representation, maybe the residential areas can go back Maryland (that was the state that the land came from, isn't it ?). I don't think that it should be a new, separate state. Again, the goal being to have the states have less variation in population, not more.