And they get 2 senators and 3 electoral votes....sigh....
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Since COVID, Migration from large, expensive coastal cities to sparsely populated rural states is one of the greatest opportunity to permanently flip representation. Idaho was the largest percentage population gainer in the US since COVID and almost all of it coming from CA, OR, WA. Were this to continue you'd probably be looking at a blue state in an election cycle or two. I think this is one of the reasons, long with insane sadism, that Rs are trying to push such radical agendas t state levels--to scare moderates and progressives from moving there. Wyoming could be permablue with one year of concentrated migration.
Even states like Texas, thought of as Red stronghold are not that disproportionately voted Red; 2020 was a difference of 600k votes. 100k net Californians(only CA!) were moving to Texas a year during the pandemic, if you add in other states we might actually see it flip in a few cycles, though the radical agenda being pushed is going to kill those numbers perhaps. Very curious to see 2024 shifts.
Spent ALL day driving rural Mississippi and Alamba and has the same thoughts about WFH. I'm happy where I'm at, but what if I wanted to move or retire to one of the picturesque small towns in Alabama? How many people have done exactly that?
Same reason I may take my wife back to the Philippines when we retire. Money spends different when an apartment is $150/mo. and a loaf of bread is $.15.
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"In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance. In America, 100 years is a long time."
Speaking as someone who lives in tiny Denmark in a city that was founded in the late 700s, that's very accurate 😄
I remember seeing something a while back that US archaeologists don't like Europeans on their dig sites, because the Europeans just bulldoze through anything less than a few hundred years old because the interesting stuff is way under it, where the US ones are like "noo, our heritage!"
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Those shit bags get 2 senators....
Each 1 Wyoming voter is worth about 67 Californians in the senate due to the fact that California has about 67 times the population but still only 2 senators.
38,940,231 Californians / 576,851 Wyomingites = ~67.5 ratio
Each Wyoming is worth one California in the Senate due to the fact that California and Wyoming are both single states. The messed up part is the missing like 140 representatives that should exist to balance population to representative for each state.
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Yes. It's especially annoying when people who live in places like wyoming act like they're "real americans". More people live in cities! Brooklyn, NY alone has ~2.7 million people.
Every person who usually resides in America is a real American
Sure, but the attitude I was trying to describe is "those city folk aren't real Americans. Only country folk and maybe suburbanites are!"
I failed to include the exclusiveness in my previous post
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Straight Border Syndrome.
The straighter a places borders are, the less likely it is that there's anything there worth fighting over, and the more likely that the lines were drawn thousands of miles away by people who'd never even been there.
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that's because it doesn't exist
No no, Ohio is the one that doesn't exist
Ohio gozaimasu
I misread it as "less popular than Glasgow."
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Australia's Northern Territory area: 1.42m km2
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Australia's Northern Territory population: 246,500 (2020)
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Greenland area: 2,166,086 km2
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Greenland population: 56,583 (2022 estimate)
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There are 5 times as many trans people in America as there are whyomingans.
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