The New States of America

Has any one ever thought about why we have 50 states? Or perhaps why they have the particular shape?
Perhaps you have noticed a difference between one part of a state to anothe, the regional differences; culture, speech, life style, ect...
I want to persuade you in these blogs to if not support the idea of retrocession at least think about the idea of reshaping our 50 states according to similarities in regional, economics and geographic reasons to create larger and fewer states.
This question I've been contemplating for some time. Do our present state borders do service or disservice to America? I say No. When the states were originally created little thought was given to the social economic struggles these state borders would create, and at there inception who would have known the country would grow as fast or as large as it is now, well perhaps Alexander Hamilton.
The main points in this post are: A brief history of how the states came to be. Why should we combine the states and How this could be done.
The beginnings can be traced to 1606 and James I of England with a charter designating the 34th to 45th parallels of latitude between what is now Nova Scotia and North Carolina. Land was granted according to religious affiliation ( Maryland to the Catholics for example). Skiping 179 years to 1785, Washington was not yet president ( not until 1789). Congress enacts the Land Ordinance of 1785. This sets the rules of survey, straight lines and rectanggular blocks of six mile squares according to Frederick Merk in his book History of the Westward Movement. The surveyors used the longatutdail and latitude lins, rivers and forts as starting points, yet the irregular shape of the states can be attributed to disputes between the 13 colonies and land