So Rhode Island shouldn't be a state? Wyoming? What are your requirements for being a State? Should NY or CA be 2 states? Why not? States aren't allowed to sec

So Rhode Island shouldn't be a state? Wyoming? What are your requirements for being a State? Should NY or CA be 2 states? Why not? States aren't allowed to secede, per Lincoln, so operating as a nation is irrelevant. (Texas is special.) The original US required every state to have access to the ocean, so Colorado and Kansas shouldn't be states.