If you got to draw the map of the USA

[Schiff for Senate]

#1.) Merge the Dakotas for starters, of course.
#2.) Divide California into Northern and Southern California (with the border between the two at the northern borders of San Luis Obispo, Kern and San Bernardino Counties).
#3.) Separate NYC and Long Island (as one state) from the rest of NY.
#4.) In Illinois, make Cook, DuPage and Will Counties one state (Chicago), and the rest of IL another. #5.) Merge WY and MT.
#6.) Split TX into several states as follows: the Expanded Panhandle (consisting of every county that is north of Throckmorton County's southern border and to the west of Archer County's eastern border), Rio Grande (including the counties of El Paso; Hudspeth; Culberson; Jeff Davis; Reeves; Presidio; Brewster; Pecos; Terrell; Crockett; Val Verde; Kinney; Uvalde; Medina; Maverick; Zavala; Frio; Dimmitt; La Salle; Webb; Atascosa; McMullen; Duval; Zapata; Jim Hogg; Jim Wells; Brooks; Starr; Hidalgo; Cameron; Willacy; Kenedy; Kleberg and Nueces) and Texas (the remaining 166 counties).
    6a.) Add Oklahoma's westernmost three counties (Cimarron, Texas, Beaver) to the
           Expanded Panhandle.
#7.) Combine KY and TN.
#8.) Combine AL and MS.
#9.) Add Baldwin County, AL, to Florida.
#10.) Move Buchanan; Tazewell; Giles; Dickenson and Bland Counties to WV.
#11.) Move Boyd, Lawrence, Carter, Elliott, Morgan, Johnson, Martin, Greenup, Rowan, Pike, Floyd, Magoffin, Letcher, Knott, Perry, Leslie and Breathitt Counties to WV.
#12.) Merge VT, ME and NH.
#13.) Merge HI and AK. Why not? It'd be fun to see where they place their capital, how they vote, etcetra.
#14.) Move the 4 WV counties north of Wetzel into Ohio.
#15.) Merge NJ and DE.
#16.) Divide Iowa into two states, East Iowa and West Iowa. Every county whose western border is not farther west than Warren's will be in East Iowa, and the residue in West Iowa. (Leaving 52 counties in East Iowa and 47 in West Iowa.)