• @spamfajitas
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    7 months ago

    I was curious just how many people actually live in South Dakota, just so that I could have a point of reference for the 37.8% statistic. Basically, it’s roughly the same amount of people as the population of New Orleans or half the population of Washington DC that agree with her. What an empty state.

    • Gormadt
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      And they’re not even the least populated state at about 900k

      That title goes to Wyoming with about 580k people

        • @surewhynotlem
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          They’d lose electoral college power then.

              • @[email protected]
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                17 months ago

                Splitting up California would only prove to weaken the region as a whole. Sure you may gain a couple senators and college votes but theres no guarantee that the resulting states would be economically solvent. You could just end up with a bunch of Mississippi type states, also a good chunk of California is quite conservative.

                Combining the Northern states has far clearer advantages both politically and economically. Namely it would allow a better spread of taxes.