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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I know it will never get done but I'm curious, what's your view on this?
Also based on this I'd be in Pocono.
From a purely theoretical sense, the biggest problem is that there would be no need for our current 2-house Congress. The whole point of having 2 "houses" was to make sure that every state has some power in Congress (the Senate) while giving the states with more people a larger say in general (the House). Make them all the same size and there is no need for the differentiation.
Something about the map I find interesting is that Sioux Falls, Des Moines, and Kansas City are all in the same "state".
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I'm fairly sure the idea is to group the counties of the states into electoral districts of equal population, not remake the states into those districts.
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Same for "Atlanta" (where I would be) and a few others.
edited 16th Feb '13 10:33:17 AM by OhnoaBear
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."That's not a plus, especially if a large group of the citizens of the state in question take pride in a historical SNAFU. Exhibit A: South Carolina.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Wait, I may be historically miseducated. Wasn't South Carolina the first Confederate state to secede? Or was it North Carolina? I forget which Carolina set things off.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.I'm certain there are events and peoples in the history of South Carolina to take pride in, but triggering what would be the bloodiest conflict in the nation's history up to that point, particularly in the defense of That Peculiar Institution, isn't what I'd consider a point of glory.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.That's more the stuff of another thread, but aside from That Peculiar (and lamentable) Institution to which you allude, we'll have to agree to disagree. Regardless, in practice many citizens' attachments to their state are less abstract, and more personal, than to the country as a whole. It'd be inadvisable to meddle with local affections and loyalties just to play electoral math—and make the twin houses of Congress redundant.
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Well you gave the world Todd Akin. That's something, right?
edited 16th Feb '13 12:30:20 PM by DeviantBraeburn
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Great, just great. Who should be blamed for this oversight?
edited 16th Feb '13 1:33:38 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

No, they aren't lazy. You were just phenomenally lucky.
edited 16th Feb '13 8:07:43 AM by Zendervai