This is exactly what dividing the electorate looks like.
Denying people (kids/young people) the protection of the federal government (right to education, informed participation in democracy, ability to successfully leave the state they were raised in), you are playing into their hands.
They want you to believe those states are full of irredeemable idiots, they market those voices to you, and they will take your statement above back home to keep their own people in place. They want you to cut them loose, but more importantly, on a political and often family level they want their own to fear you.