We are in favor of a process of redrawing state lines so those living on the border of other states can opt out of blue state tyranny. The number of states who have border counties who want to merge with the freer and less regulated red states continues to grow.

Illinois, which rivals California as a “failed state,” saw several counties move last week to redraw the Indiana-Illinois border to absorb parts of Illinois.

Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston has introduced a bill to establish an Indiana-Illinois boundary adjustment commission. Five members would be appointed by the Indiana governor and five members would be selected by Illinois.

Nearly three dozen Illinois counties have voted in recent years to leave the state.

Breaking up Illinois is unlikely, but not impossible. As the Chicago Tribune reports:

There have been two instances in U.S. history where states have created boundaries, but it was to create new states and not shift the border between two existing states, Helmke said.

In 1820, Maine was established as a state by taking land away from Massachusetts, which the Massachusetts legislature and Congress approved, as a pro-Union faction of Virginia established West Virginia as a free state.

We are all for redrawing state lines so that citizens have self-determination and can escape from what they view as tyranny.