The analysis of data from federal health authorities found sharp declines in lifesaving surgeries in Puerto Rico and seven states, all but one Southern and Midwestern: Alabama, Louisiana, Kansas, North Carolina, South Dakota, Iowa and Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, New York and California, whose transplant industry officials lobbied for the new policy, logged their highest numbers of liver transplants in more than a decade in 2021 — 603 and 959, respectively.

I don't think I have ever wanted a national divorce more.

Should let the blue states crumble then just take them over and treat them as a conquered nation.

That's a tad dystopian.