Their agenda, known as the Five and Dime Plan, aims to immediately tighten election rules, invalidate drivers’ licenses issued to undocumented immigrants by other states, prohibit college diversity initiatives, prohibit the state from considering environmental concerns when making investment decisions and reduce property taxes.
We should make them merge with Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota. Then import just enough normal Americans into places like Boseman to turn it blue.
We’d need around 130,000 votes to flip Wyoming according to the 2024 results.
It maybe doesn’t seem like a lot but to move that number of people would be a massive increase in their current population (586,485).
I’m sure even more would be needed in my hypothetical scenario. Bozeman (Montana) has around only 58,459 total, and so yeah, the kind of strain on infrastructure to suddenly add huge numbers to a place like that would be incredibly disruptive.
In all seriousness, during the peak of the pandemic, I entertained the notion (mostly in my head, some of it shared with my family, but not too serious about it) of moving to Bozeman or maybe the surrounding area and working from there. Or maybe buying/renting a very small place and spending part of the time there.
But it seems like the cost of living went up there a lot during that time, too, and places like public parks were overrun, because many others had similar ideas. Also, the cost of living was already above average. I was under the impression it was fairly low, but that was very wrong. So yeah, in all honesty, not that this would ever happen anyway, but people would have to be spread around between the 4 states.
Even combining several of these states together would be a huge win, even if they stay deeply red. It would curtail the over-representation that qons and rural interests get. Throw Nebraska, Kansas, and Idaho in there, too, maybe.
Ha no kidding - I also entertained (still do a bit) the idea of moving to WY. I do really like the idea of flipping these low population places. A long term effort to encourage people to do it really would be worthwhile I think.
Combining some of them also makes a ton of sense for combating overrepresentation, especially because most of the time these low-pop states are very similar to their low-pop neighbors. Just wish there were a more politically plausible solution. DC/PR statehood seems more likely but not exactly likely either. Probably easiest is still just working to bring over some blue-collar high school educated rural voters.