• Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2

  • United Kingdom area: 244,376 km2

  • Wyoming population: 576,851 (2020)

  • Glasgow urban area population: 632,350 (2020)

  • @Boozilla
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    733 months ago

    And they get 2 senators and 3 electoral votes…sigh…

      • @pdxfed
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        Since COVID, Migration from large, expensive coastal cities to sparsely populated rural states is one of the greatest opportunity to permanently flip representation. Idaho was the largest percentage population gainer in the US since COVID and almost all of it coming from CA, OR, WA. Were this to continue you’d probably be looking at a blue state in an election cycle or two. I think this is one of the reasons, long with insane sadism, that Rs are trying to push such radical agendas t state levels–to scare moderates and progressives from moving there. Wyoming could be permablue with one year of concentrated migration.

        Even states like Texas, thought of as Red stronghold are not that disproportionately voted Red; 2020 was a difference of 600k votes. 100k net Californians(only CA!) were moving to Texas a year during the pandemic, if you add in other states we might actually see it flip in a few cycles, though the radical agenda being pushed is going to kill those numbers perhaps. Very curious to see 2024 shifts.

        • @shalafi
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          43 months ago

          Spent ALL day driving rural Mississippi and Alamba and has the same thoughts about WFH. I’m happy where I’m at, but what if I wanted to move or retire to one of the picturesque small towns in Alabama? How many people have done exactly that?

          Same reason I may take my wife back to the Philippines when we retire. Money spends different when an apartment is $150/mo. and a loaf of bread is $.15.

        • @aidan
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          13 months ago

          A lot of the people leaving those states left them for a reason though

      • @vladmech
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        293 months ago

        Disproportionate representation can be kind of a bummer for the under represented folks. Get rid of the senate and remove the cap on the house!

        • unalivejoy
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          103 months ago

          Sadly that will never happen (peacefully) because the smaller states would never vote to reduce their own power. That’s not even considering it would require a constitutional amendment, which is notoriously hard to pass.

        • @John_McMurray
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          -43 months ago

          Wyoming is the under represented folks, this was the solution.

          • @[email protected]
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            123 months ago

            The Senate was the solution, the house is meant to be population based but they ran out of space in the chamber and capped it instead of just building a bigger room so now Wyoming is massively overrepresented.

            • @John_McMurray
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              -103 months ago

              This is a lie, Wyoming has ONE congressman.

              • @ripcord
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                63 months ago

                What part is a lie?

                • @John_McMurray
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                  Wyoming is massively overrepresented.

                  You want less than one congressman per state or what? California has 40 or 50, there’s like 5 states with one congressman. Spare me the crocodile tears about you’re so under represented.

              • @[email protected]
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                33 months ago

                And that one congressman represents 500k people, Meanwhile each of Florida’s represents 800k people. Why should the people of Florida’s votes be worth 60% of a Wyoming voter’s? Why should we not just give Florida 11 more congresspeople so it’s even?

          • @jumjummy
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            33 months ago

            Take a look at https://www.thegreenpapers.com/Census10/FedRep.phtml?sort=Elec#table

            California has 678,945 residents per elected representative versus Wyoming’s 284,150, meaning that Wyoming’s residents have an almost 3x voice. Wyoming is the most represented state by population ratio and California is last.

            As others have said, that’s what the senate was for, while the House should have a static ratio across all states with the count increasing by total national population.

            • @John_McMurray
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              boo fucking hoo. they have 40 plus representatives, Wyoming is a big state. 2 senators and a congressman. Person could easily argue a Californians vote is worth much more, that state has a whole team going in the house. the ratio is basically static, except for states that no longer the population to get one. Like do you want Wyoming and north dakota to share a house member? That’s not practical either.

              • @Viking_HippieOP
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                33 months ago

                Wyoming is a big state.

                In area, sure, but most of it is empty or populated by more cows than humans. You’re basically saying that empty land and cows deserve equal representation to humans.

                Person could easily argue a Californians vote is worth much more

                You could, but you’d be very very wrong. A third as much is not more.

                Like do you want Wyoming and north dakota to share a house member?

                Wouldn’t be any more stupid than the current situation 🤷

                • @John_McMurray
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                  -73 months ago

                  it’s hilarious how you can tell roughly where anyone is from by the propaganda they bought.

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        263 months ago

        Puerto Rico is six times as populous and gets none

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          Because they’re a territory and not a state.

          Whenever it comes up, they reject becoming a state - it’s not a beneficial change for them (I don’t blame them).

          • Match!!
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            113 months ago

            They passed three pro-statehood referendums since 2012. It doesn’t seem to matter. Presumably, if they passed a pro-independence referendum, it wouldn’t happen either.

          • @Cryophilia
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            13 months ago

            Actually 52% in favor of statehood as of 2020. Sentiment seems to be shifting.

        • unalivejoy
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          43 months ago

          Don’t territories get 1 non-voting representative (effectively 0)?

      • @humorlessrepost
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        173 months ago

        My problem is that my vote has far less weight than someone in that state. Wasn’t that implied?

        Square miles of farmland shouldn’t have votes, people should.

        • @John_McMurray
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          -83 months ago

          It doesn’t. That’s just a soundbite. You’re not voting against a wyoming resident. Your vote has the sane power as your neighbours

          • @humorlessrepost
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            43 months ago

            Your vote has the sane power as your neighbours

            Not if I live near a state boundary.

            • @John_McMurray
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              -93 months ago

              They’re nor voting in your election at all, so…

              • @humorlessrepost
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                53 months ago

                Like I said to the other person, I understand how the system works. I’m criticizing it.

                • @John_McMurray
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                  -63 months ago

                  Yeah, you suddenly claimed to understand it after a bunch of statements made it seem otherwise.

        • @[email protected]
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          -103 months ago

          Your vote for president has zero power outside of your state. Your vote informs your state’s electoral representative as to who to vote for.

          States elect a president as the leader of the executive branch, a federal role, which affects relationships between a federation of states. Federal government’s role is supposed to be limited to managing the relationships between states.

          It’s not a popular vote. Never has been, and would be inappropriate to make it so. Basic civics.

          There’s way too much attention paid to the office of president, when there are ~500 other federal politicians who are ignored by doing so.

          • @humorlessrepost
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            I know how the system works. I’m not disputing it. I’m saying the status quo is bad, not that it’s false.

            It’s not a popular vote. Never has been, and would be inappropriate to make it so. Basic civics.

            Pointing out it’s “basic civics” that that’s how it works currently, and using that to sneak in the huge claim that it’s also “basic civics” that a popular vote “would be inappropriate”. If that was intentional, it was clever.

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            83 months ago

            The house of representatives is unjust in its uneven, disproportionate, and meager representation. Is that what you wanted to hear?

            • @humorlessrepost
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              63 months ago

              “But that’s how it currently works! Why don’t you understand that?!”

              — that person, probably

  • @ilinamorato
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    283 months ago

    “In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance. In America, 100 years is a long time.”

    • @[email protected]
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      43 months ago

      I remember seeing something a while back that US archaeologists don’t like Europeans on their dig sites, because the Europeans just bulldoze through anything less than a few hundred years old because the interesting stuff is way under it, where the US ones are like “noo, our heritage!”

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        No European archeologist would do that. Maybe 19th century ones, like Schliemann, who was so anxious to find the Troy of legend that he plowed through all layers above it.

        But modern archeologists would absolutely not do such a thing.

  • @madcaesar
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    263 months ago

    Those shit bags get 2 senators…

    • @3volver
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      153 months ago

      Each 1 Wyoming voter is worth about 67 Californians in the senate due to the fact that California has about 67 times the population but still only 2 senators.

      38,940,231 Californians / 576,851 Wyomingites = ~67.5 ratio

      • @Narauko
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        73 months ago

        Each Wyoming is worth one California in the Senate due to the fact that California and Wyoming are both single states. The messed up part is the missing like 140 representatives that should exist to balance population to representative for each state.

    • Ricky Rigatoni
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      -43 months ago

      Same as every other state dingus. That’s why we have the house of representatives.

      • @Cryophilia
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        13 months ago

        You’re right, and the dingus needs a civics lesson.

        But as you’re probably aware, the House has its issues with being artificially limited too.

  • @[email protected]
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    223 months ago

    Yes. It’s especially annoying when people who live in places like wyoming act like they’re “real americans”. More people live in cities! Brooklyn, NY alone has ~2.7 million people.

    • Aatube
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      193 months ago

      Every person who usually resides in America is a real American

      • @[email protected]
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        213 months ago

        Sure, but the attitude I was trying to describe is “those city folk aren’t real Americans. Only country folk and maybe suburbanites are!”

        I failed to include the exclusiveness in my previous post

    • @johannesvanderwhales
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      13 months ago

      They’re real Americans, just not…realer Americans than city dwellers.

  • @[email protected]
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    143 months ago

    Straight Border Syndrome.

    The straighter a places borders are, the less likely it is that there’s anything there worth fighting over, and the more likely that the lines were drawn thousands of miles away by people who’d never even been there.

    • Captain Aggravated
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      23 months ago

      That’s most of the US/Canada border. That little tick where Minnesota sticks up into Canada is because a treaty was made with a map that didn’t actually show the accurate geography there.

  • @Dolphinfreetuna
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    73 months ago

    I misread it as “less popular than Glasgow.”

    • @Viking_HippieOP
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      23 months ago

      Would probably be 8 or 9 times as many if poor people in Wyoming could afford to move and no trans people felt the need to pretend to be cis for safety too.

  • @zik
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    63 months ago
    • Australia’s Northern Territory area: 1.42m km2

    • Australia’s Northern Territory population: 246,500 (2020)

    • @Viking_HippieOP
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      23 months ago
      • Greenland area: 2,166,086 km2

      • Greenland population: 56,583 (2022 estimate)

      • @zik
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        Nice. I guess Antarctica’s next.

  • @feedum_sneedson
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    33 months ago

    Why did I think there was two million people in Wyoming, what the hell happened?

  • @[email protected]
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    Despite being 7.9x bigger than Wyoming, Nunavut has half the population of Cheyenne

  • @Mr_Blott
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    See? Naebdy gies a shite