u/Crimzonchi

This is something that's occured to me recently seeing various example of economic decay and political mistrust in parts of the country.

If a state's population were to ever leave for other states in large numbers, to the point that said state's population falls below a few thousand people, what would be done? Would that state have to be folded into one of it's neighbors, in a reverse of West Virginia? Or split up in portions to various neighbors?

There's tons of discussion on the hypothetical of states seceding from the union, but none on if one were to dissolve.