No, Indiana doesn't really want these Illinois counties — though it is easy to see why Illinois might not want them either.

Neighboring Indiana has taken notice ... where vast swaths of red, rural counties are dominated by a few blue cities. The divide between urban and rural America has long been a fault line ...

Indiana Republican lawmakers have launched a bid to redraw state lines and welcome in counties from Democrat-led Illinois. State House Speaker Todd Huston introduced HB 1008, which would establish ...

Second, neither the Red State and Blue State models of rural development have worked. The secessionist counties of Illinois look just like 40 or 50 declining rural counties in Indiana. Both ...