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Originally Posted by ferrets_bueller
Good morning, fellow (mostly) urban sophisticates.
The Washington Post recently published an article with some deeply, deeply disturbing demographics. By the year 2040....roll this around and think about somebody like President Mike Huckleberry....30 percent of the population of the country will control 68 percent of the seats in the U.S. Senate. Or, more starkly, half the population of the country will control 84 percent of those seats. The other half, with the major urban centers, with have 16 percent of the Senate seats. The graphics are very good.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.bd87f7c1c09d
The Senate becomes a barrier to anything remotely progressive.
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Of course the senate is unrepresentative - it was set up to be. But some of the low population states are actually very urban (like Rhode Island, Maryland, Nevada, and Hawaii), they just have a small big city at their core. There are some like Connecticut that are suburbs and the suburbs to those suburbs. There are even a few liberal but truly rural states (start with Vermont...). And the big states include Texas, which is pretty conservative.
But, hell, I'm going to have to retire to some tiny rural swing state - maybe Montana. Montana is nice. Who wants to join me.
And we really have to make Puerto Rico a state after the Hurricane debacle.
