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Maybe Alaska is a blue state.

We need the maps to use scattered dots in red and blue to represent votes by population. The map would have big splotches of blue swimming in a fine pink mist.

But but but all those prairies and cornfields sure do look red!!!!

They keep on saying things like this because they don't consider anyone who lives in a city to be a "real" American. They really do think that land should have more of a say than people.

🎯 - for those in the back ⬇️

It's called the Senate.

Dot with 55% of the state's populatlon and 4 of the state's 8 House seats

What did you expect from a Republican pundit?

These people never learned how to read a map, a data chart, or a graph

Yes and… it also minimizes the people that don’t think like emmerb and live outside of the cities. It also gives him the opportunity and false belief that maga pedo protectors are a monolith.

Reminds me of a project I was trying out with the Mandelbrot Set many years ago…

Republicans like those areas because it has a lot of bull shit.

*except in the US senate.

Nope. If it did, Greenland would have wayyy more political power than Denmark in the Folketing, and yet...

Except in the US Senate, which is apportioned according to the number of land parcels.

Could you imagine the fire and fury they’d rain down on us if Dems started talking about rural areas in pink states this way? “That’s not a red state, there’s just a bunch of hicks voting red in areas where no one lives.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Ri... The SRP elections are open only to district property owners and for the most part those votes are based on "one-acre-one vote" so, in this (hopefully very isolated) instance, "land" DOES vote. I guess we can call this "the exception that proves the rule."

Nah, their anti Asian bigotry would have taken over if they couldn't use anticommunism.

If Minnesota is so red, why hasn't Tom tried to run statewide, for Governor or the Senate?

He knows that. He lost the 2010 Governor race to Mark Dayton, who is not the most charismatic guy in the world. The DFL has held the Executive branch and both US Senate seats since then. He is a not very bright dickhead on the order of Michelle Bachmann.

you'll have better luck shouting till you are a horse

people would be allowed multiple votes depending on the acres they own in however many states they have property

America has had the majority of its population living in urban centers for over a century now

This map would blow his mind.

a "blue dot" where.. you know... all the people live...

I feel like it's a crime every time one of those heat maps is shown. Fine, want to show counties, then put a colored dot proportional the population in those counties. Red counties would have a nearly invisible tiny dot. Blue would have giant dots.

Until they change it so that it does

Yeah, crucially what he's referring to isn't a heat map! If it were, it would show population density, not just which way each district swung.

Count people votes and land votes? Is that why they’re always going on about blood and soil?

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But, but big state big and red and map is big. Tiny blue dot city is small then why state go blue. 😠

The Sahara desert is v conservative many don't know this

bsky.app/profile/mast...

makes you wonder how serious they are about one person one vote

Always reminds me of this.

The city of Los Angeles, for example—not even the whole county, just the city alone!—has more people in it than the five smallest states (pause for emphasis) COMBINED. That means that 10% of the senate represents fewer people than one city (which itself gets no senators).

Some days i really think we should bring back city states. No more Minnesota just the greater twin cities

Cities are good

For a state proud of it’s lakes, I don’t see those blue dots represented in those ‘heat’ maps

they do it because they know their voters are stupid, and when they see lots of red on the map, they think that means more votes

I’m actually sick and tired of being told what’s Real America by people who don’t like living near other people because there’s a chance they might not look and think EXACTLY THE SAME AS THEM.

The founding fathers all had big plantations and didn't want the poors crammed int the cities to tell them what to do.

If all those rich conservatives didn't like California being a blue state they shouldn't have moved to the Rocky Mountains and lost influence back in the 80s and 90s.

Jakarta is an anomaly compared to the countryside

I’m from “red” California and my county has a population of about 200,000, that’s like, one Huntington Beach

While we're at it, can we please do something about Wyoming? I don't like there being a huge empty rectangle that gets two senators.

hashtag reterritorize dakota

Both Dakotas should be merged with Montana and Wyoming.

We should probably throw Nebraska in there as well:

Alternative: divide California into 40 states. The State of San Francisco gets two senators. Maybe gerrymander the new state lines to give Democrats 80 senate seats — 40 long skinny states radiating from LA and SF all the way to Nevada, Idaho and Oregon.

My long held stance is there should only be a single Dakota and it should include both current Dakotas as well as Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

youtu.be/O5dmxBUbzBU?...

We need more consolidation: Mondakotaho

they don't call that land bad for nothin'

Bundle the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana together into one state, imo. Same with Nebraska/Kansas and Utah/Nevada.

Fuck it, George McGovern was from Minnesota now. No more Dakotas. Wide-sota time.

Listen they only did it for more senators, so revoking it makes sense.

This thread has made me work out that Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota have roughly the same population as Wales, UK (which is largely fields and mountains). Only those four states are 48 times bigger than Wales.

Dakotas abolished and used to form Ultra Minnesota until we figure out what’s going on

most of these low population states shouldn’t exist

My congressional district as of the upcoming elections (the green hatchet-shaped one in the far north) contains huge swathes of the reddest parts of California and also Marin county (the southern tip of the district), which contains a mere 3% of the Bay Area by population. It's a D+25 district.

Except we fight like extremely bratty children. The kind that swore a blood oath against their siblings at age 7. I am occasionally swayed by arguments to break up California, but never any plan that allows Orange County to split off from LA. We go down TOGETHER, as families should.

Just to be clear the comparison is to each individual state, i.e. the state of Oregon’s population is smaller than LA Country. SoCal as a whole has a larger population than every state except Texas. Also too, if the SF Bay Area were its own state, it would be the 14th largest.

When you're an idiot and dont have a good story to tell you concoct some crap that, frankly, makes no sense.

I don't think this would be a good way to do democracy, but it wouldn't be bad to let Republicans know their voters can be treated the way they treat Democratic voters. "Shouldn't voters over age 70 have to renew their registration in person every year? We need proof they're still alive!"

It’s funny how conservatives call entire nations and communities “low IQ” but they’re too stupid to understand the concept of population density.