[bryanlarsen]

I used North and South Dakota for a reason. The only reason they were split was to hijack the Senate.

[wakawaka28]

That is misleading. There was no state of Dakota. The two became states at the same time. Even Wikipedia says this:

>Regionalist tensions between the northern and the southern parts of the territory were present since the beginning.

So, the split was not likely about senate seats. It was about people getting along within each state.