Officials want South Florida to break off into its own state

[spuwho]

Tallahassee became the capital of Florida during the second legislative session. It was chosen as it was roughly equidistant from St. Augustine and Pensacola, which had been the capitals of the Spanish colonies of East Florida and West Florida. The first session of Florida's Legislative Council—as a territory of the United States—met on July 22, 1822 at Pensacola and members from St. Augustine traveled fifty-nine days by water to attend. The second session was in St. Augustine and required western delegates to travel perilously around the peninsula on a twenty-eight day trek. During this session, it was decided that future meetings should be held at a half-way point. Two appointed commissioners selected Tallahassee, at that point an abandoned Apalachee settlement, as a halfway point. In 1824 the third legislative session met there in a crude log capitol.[11]

[tufsu1]

This was primarily a stunt to get Tallahassee to pay attention.  Many south Florida cities are increasingly concerned about climate change and all the Governor does is say "I'm not a scientist".  While creating two states seems kind of dumb, getting the Republican-dominated Legislature to address climate change is laudable.

[ProjectMaximus]

I also guess, they didn't think too much about the urban areas of Orlando and Tampa either.  They split them into two different "states".

There are plenty of other MSAs that are split by state border. Chicago's is actually in three different states.