Hello friends, welcome to the second edition of Sharing Answers Your Questions.

On the podcast page with my website, you can just go to shareandmakeman.com slash podcast,

scroll all the way to the bottom, and there is a little orange button that allows you

to record a voice memo for me.

Via that system, you can leave me some of your questions that you might like me to answer

on my podcast.

So that is what we are doing today.

I am answering your questions.

Let's get into this episode.

I'm Sharon Nickman, and welcome to the Shareand Says So Podcast.

Hi Sharon, this is Beth from Upstate New York.

On one of your previous episodes, you talked about the process of what would need to occur

if Texas were to break up into several different states, and I was curious what that process

would be like for New York.

Living here, you often will hear people say things like Long Island should be its own

state or New York City should be its own state.

So I was just curious how that would work for New York and what kind of rules and regulations

there might be for that.

Great question.

This is a question I've been asked a bunch of times.

Illinois split up into a couple of different states.

Can Chicago become its own situation and then outstate Illinois become a different state?

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